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minus-square@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish66•1 month agoMod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.
minus-square@punkibas@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish20•1 month agoSomeone mentioned this in another thread and I found it interesting: Ckan kerbal space program mods Apparently its a frontend for mods that’s hosted on github
minus-square@msage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish2•30 days agoGithub, that’s limiting API calls, hmm…
minus-square@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 month agoWould a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube’s back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers
minus-square@d00ery@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-21 month agoSeems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar. It’d be a real treat to see a VC company get shafted.
minus-square@YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 month agoHit me up with an addy when you’re on it!
minus-square@WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoOoh I’ll take some addy too. Been too long and I need to clean my fuckin house.
Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.
Someone mentioned this in another thread and I found it interesting:
Ckan kerbal space program mods
Apparently its a frontend for mods that’s hosted on github
Github, that’s limiting API calls, hmm…
Would a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube’s back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers
Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar. It’d be a real treat to see a VC company get shafted.
Hit me up with an addy when you’re on it!
Ooh I’ll take some addy too. Been too long and I need to clean my fuckin house.