After climbing on the tank a few times, and talking with the tank commander, he was eventually lead away by some other onlookers completely unharmed.

US cops have killed ~600 people so far this year.

Its probably a decade old meme at this point, which is besides the point, and is why you dodged the content of the meme. No revolution will ever meet your standards. Millions of people are too busy building socialism and lifting people out of poverty to care what some western anarchist thinks about them.

This ^orb will destroy you

PRC: Murdering bicycles.

USA: Murdering pets

I have a little helper in lemmy that shows how to view torrents the easy way: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html#torrents

The easy way of installing stremio will probably work for most people. Torrenting inside the browser isn’t an option IMO.

Minimo launcher is my new fave. Its simple, decreases addiction, and surpasses Olauncher in features.

Minimo launcher is great.

ScreenZen, with specific times ranges allowed to use given apps.

Nice, I’ll check it out.

Why do you assume they aren’t? Because they can type comments?

Step one is education about what works, and doesn’t, and how worker liberation has been acheived in the past. Here’s a good reading list from @Cowbee@lemmy.ml , and one that I host.

Step two is organizing: joining a communist / working-class party, and if none exist, starting one like the Black Panthers did. Which org you join depends on which country you live in; but we can only gain liberation by joining organizations which push our interests and not those of capitalists.

Torrents-csv does use a crawler I believe to add new torrents. torsniff is one of those spiders that works really well.

It might also be interesting to take an existing GUI like Freetube and try swapping out the backend with a torrent based one.

Ya I’m not sure how to handle the UI side of things yet, especially for content discovery.

There are projects out there to create a jellyfin / media server styel experience out there for videos downloaded using yt-dlp.

This doesn’t conflict with those, but is more about the hosting / sharing side. However you download youtube videos, its possible to use a media server to sync watched progress.

Do you think this could become popular enough it to be useful?

Everything starts from zero, so really it just requires a push for the project to get started.

Public BitTorrent trackers for other media are barely seeded as it is and they have been active for decades.

I don’t think I agree with this. Many torrents have thousands of seeders, and even if I search for old movies, I can find ones with at least a handful of seeders. Given the popularity of youtube videos, its possible that people would seed their favorites if they have the possibility to do so.

Actually considering the db is just one massive torrent.csv file I guess you can’t really sensor that.

Yep, its kinda wild, that the entire index of popular torrents (which equates to most popular media humankind has created), fits in a CSV file of less than 200MB. Makes it pretty hard to censor in that case.

I don’t use windows so I don’t know.

To truly decentralize the metadata layer, consider whether the search infrastructure itself can be federated or if the client should handle local indexing to eliminate dependency on any external discovery service.

A federated search service / index (especially unmoderated) could quickly fill up with spam. So at least the torrent additions / adders themselves need to be vetted and trustworthy for a search to work correctly.

And of course torrents-csv doesn’t have to be the only place hosting magnet links. They could easily be posted to any federated app, like a lemmy community or mastodon also.

This already exists, they’re called torrents, and lemmy works with magnet links already: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html#images-and-video

Yes, this could potentially be used in youtube front-ends. IE show the magnet link of a given video if it exists, so that it could be torrented.

Why should I use this over yt-dlp, Piped, Invidious, etc?

None of those are attempts to decentralize youtube. Piped and invidious are only front ends for youtube, which can easily be blocked by youtube at any moment, which has happened in the case of tons of third party clients.

yt-dlp is a very useful tool (which this projects uses), to download youtube videos. It does not help collectively share them, as torrents would.

What does this do differently than the other projects?

Peertube and other youtube alternatives are based on centralized hosting. This is completely unsustainable, because the HD space required for servers quickly grows out of hand, and becomes extremely expensive. Meanwhile, torrents are shared hosting, where many people are sharing files at once. It is the main way large files like movies are distributed over the internet, for decades now. We should apply that same effort to creating torrents for youtube videos, in the same way that is already done for other large files.