Posted by Cider9986 10 hours ago
My visits have dropped by about 95%
It's by far the best designed social media site out there. I know it's a low bar but still.
I suspect this has become more of a meme by Mastodon/Bluesky users than anything real.
But to be honest I never found TPB (or rarbg etc.) really useful for music.
A lot of uploaders still zip everything so you can't download one song out of some album. And the discoverability is shit because DHT doesn't let you ask peers for all their torrents so you need to run a server that index multiple trackers or look things up manually.
The only alternative is Soulseek where it's a direct connection model instead of hash based. That means there are no stable IDs to get a file if the original uploader is down and users can send you anything they want like troll audio or malware.
If we want people to start pirating music again we need to make the UX as good as Spotify. That means no explicit downloads, when you click play the app gets the file from a peer, saves it to a cache then starts playing and seeding automatically. Songs and albums should be content addressed in a global namespace instead of living on trackers, and there should probably be a reputation system. I think something based on iroh blobs for content and atproto for discovery can work.
https://github.com/skorokithakis/detour, running on https://twit.0r.cx.
Just replace x.com with twit.0r.cx.
Example:
Twitter is different there's many stories that are only there.
The best way is always private trackers. They're easy to get into, easy to keep (if you're a serious and honest person), malware free, high quality content, great community, etc.
If they were easy to get into, they wouldn't be good
It's probably easier to lurk in r/trackerinvites (or whatever it's called) hoping to snatch an invite
But why wouldn't you?
how would you (EDIT: publicly) host such a nitter instance while avoiding the risk of legal consequences?
since old.reddit (EDIT: on mobile) is closed for visitors without an account it would be great if there was also a neddit project.
It has a few public instances - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...
Seems to work decently well, I've seen it being linked to on HN.
https://github.com/skorokithakis/detour, running on https://twit.0r.cx.
Just replace x.com with twit.0r.cx.
Example:
points to a working nitter instance.
> This way, you relay the account register process to the seller. These tokens are sold in the format username|password|2fa_code|cookies (including auth token, id and ct0), which makes it very easy and convenient for us to use.
is this legit? this sounds extremely shady. maybe an ad?
Yes, you have to give up all your personal data and submit to anal probing to get an account on a sillycon valley service, but a bad actor just has to pay $10 in bitcoin to get a thousand of them.