these clients should be handling this for you. announcing a torrent is available for seeding isnt a huge deal. you should never have to limit the content you’re making available, just the amount of resources you’re willing to dedicate to active transfer. this might be of interest to you in a few months when its available, slated for june to be daily usable.

got something coming to help with that! probably june release.

great!

I’d be interested in snagging a copy from your smokey, I’m currently putting together system for collective sharing and archiving that im hoping to release in july.

Protesting is the least useful form of collective action. Dont worry if you cant participate in it directly. Its not materially useful.

What you need to do is organize locally and hold your local reps to the fire. Ensure your local elections are run fairly, etc etc.

Help run info ops for naturalized citizens who are comfortable taking direct action. Gather information and make it publicly available. Could be as simple as locating all the charging stations in your state for example. Or dossiers on particularly disgusting ceos.

Plenty of things you can do without directly exposing yourself.

smile I’ve been sitting on this for a few years. Finally in a position to tackle it! honeygain looks nifty i might take a closer look later. currently have my hands full with the initial plan. =)

Awesome! I’ll ping you shortly, probably over the weekend, Im packed rest of the week. I havent seen veilid! But I’ve built similar things in the past, mostly to learn as i was cutting my teeth learning many years ago.

Looks like a straight up kademlia (from the 160bit keys at least) implementation with some modern RPC on top? would definitely consider looking closer at it. ATM I have that bit squared away enough for the initial program (though I’ve been gutting the library a bit for it to be functional for the use cases I have planned). but it’ll definitely need some love at some point. just have a million other parts to build first before the optimization bits occur.

I understanding your post mostly?

You’re 100% on point! Yes the monetization is mostly for access to the cloud storage, covers the supporting infrastructure, and ideally puts some food on my and a few others table long term so we can continue improving these system, while giving users cloud storage for orders of magnitude less than whats on the market.

I have a few other systems I’d like to invert and break the markets on as well. but these things take time to build sadly, both from a pure technical stand point and from a communal building process.

For example ATM I have no street cred so why would people trust what I say? That’s what I’m trying to do atm with this post: build that credibility with you and other people within the community via working together and building a useful tool, that does exactly what I’ve laid out here. I expect this process to take years. =)

And then how does advertising and content creators come into play?

The advertising stuff is longer term, and ideally just a way for users to earn some scratch. For me its a middle finger to the current systems out there.

But the basic idea is if the system hits a critical mass of users and is in that ‘valuable eye space’ category users will be able to enable and setup ads. The money from the ads will be credited to your account in two parts, yours and a portion towards the creators of the content you watch. Each month the creator portion will be applied on top of subscription value for the peoples whose content you’ve watched. Your portion you can do whatever you want; can be used to offset your subscription, take payouts at set values (processing fees blow).

The ads are the hardest part to do honestly, as it requires a user base and either a platform for advertisers to use or hooking into the existing (exploitative) systems somehow. Its an area that if / when its done will be done very thoughtfully.

but I won’t have stable internet access besides cellular for about a year.

That makes you super valuable in this context! unstable environments are the best test beds. I usually have my dev environments setup to simulate these situations, but doesnt replace the real thing.

Doing it all in one style might simplify the process enough to onboard less tech savvy people.

That’s my hope! I have a few non-techies lined up for later in the process. primarily once the VPN stuff is in place; at least at that point they’ll just need to focus on signing up for a VPN and finding a private tracker.

I am potentially interested

Great! I’m potentially interested in working with you! ;) We’ll be in touch.

dude stfu and enjoy it. I love when that shit happens to me.

Thank you for your upcoming service. I look forward to mildly annoying you!

… In the wrong direction.

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