Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
I’m building this hosting service and while testing the torrent aspect of it I uploaded the Linux mint torrent and I’ve been seeing it ever since.
In general, most large FOSS torrents benefit from additional seeders (although I don’t think many are in lack thereof). Beyond that, I think I vaguely remember wikipedia and internet archive having a torrent component.
There’s no warning anywhere saying so, but torrents have been broken on archive.org for years now. I can’t remember the specifics but many torrents if IA is the only seed you’ll get stuck at 99.9% and it’ll never complete.
Infuriating.
Yeah, it’s like that for some torrents, but some also work fine. And the ones that don’t work, you can revive by manually downloading the zip file from their servers, I guess.