Thanks for these recent posts and for including my new community. Encouraging me to follow through with posting!
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Do you have something particular on for your community?
Also, don't hesitate to crosspost.
Thanks for letting me know about cross posting! I welcome the same.
My biggest goal in creating coms on my instance is to decentralize, as lemmy should be, and to have administrative control against downright rude people who have kept their reddit-attitudes.
After that, I created prepping because I find it increasingly important for everyday situations and fun to think about :) I’m sorry I don’t think I have specific goals beyond that but I’m thankful you shared all of these communities regardless of age! I will post more.
I’ve hypothetically shared over 50tb ;)
I have an absolute ton of ebooks I'd love to make available, but it's nearing 600GB just for books and PDFs alone. It used to be linked on the Prepper subreddit, but unfortunately it looks like the owner took it down. I'd host a torrent, but my ISP is already giving me the side eye for how much I've pulled the last couple months.
Any ideas on how to host this, outside of the US? I'd rather not put it behind some paywall, and this is a huge amount of data, but man.... I'd hate to see it be gone from availability. I might be able to set aside one of my family Outlook accounts since it has 1TB allocated, but I'm concerned it would break everything off into 2GB chunks randomly. Maybe if I use 7zip to zip everything into 2GB chunks?
Any ideas or suggestions?
I would refrain from making it available. For one, there are already plenty of sources for people who would like to get invested. The other thing is, that such a huge collection needs to be sighted, understood and sieved to have purpose for individuals/the recipient.
My point of view is, that a pile of redundant documents could make things worse because it is not easily digestable.
Oh, these definitely aren't available on there. I'm mobile now, but let me see if I can share a screenshot of just the directories....
Over 40,000 books!
Pretty much TEOTWAWKI with american focus.
Need to have the TOS in mind on this one.
Yeah, there may be things in it that are.... Perhaps not meant for distribution. I'm conflicted, because as much as I'm not all "yay, piracy" (at least when said property is readily available for a reasonable cost), if there's a situation where things do collapse, schools and education is still going to be important. Not just K-12, but more advanced higher education. Libraries may end up being raided and having their contents burnt by morons looking to stay warm in the winter, and I don't have nearly enough physical space to hold even a tiny portion of the digitized books.
Is your torrent application behind a vpn? If so there should be no issue!
You should find if they’re accessible on libgen and MAM. If they’re there I think it isn’t necessary for you to share them yourself.
It isn't so much that I'm using a torrent. It is the sheer size of everything!
You would only share that much if people chose to download it all.
Which is my hope, hence the reason why I want to have it back up. It's a great resource to add to an offline database.
Your ISP gives you a bandwidth limit?
Yes. 1.2TB.
Just uploading it not even 2 1/2 times would put me back on their list of shame
Oh geez, sorry!