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[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 days ago

"Anna's Archive is a non-profit project with two goals:

  1. Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity.

  2. Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to anyone in the world."

Thanks everyone who contributed this great project.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (6 children)

K now someone make a script that compares your Spotify library to the torrent and downloads all songs please...

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Sure but, again, the files are in a relatively low quality.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

This oh this, please

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 14 points 2 days ago

Meh, whenever I go through spotify looking for the albums I like, about 40% of them aren't even on there. You're better off not bothering with their shite.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The internet needs a better way to share stuff than a fixed list of files. It should be easy to simply browse through a shared folder and decide to participate in storing and hosting that file.

Having to split huge archives like this into multiple torrents is such a terrible workaround. It requires those with huge storage to host the torrents. People who just require a subset can't properly participate.

Such a pity IPFS is so crap. It should be been the solution to this, but alas...

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's crap about IPFS? I've never used it, but have always been intrigued.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a resource hog and quite unstable. A major gripe I have with it is that it makes accessing what you downloaded very difficult because the documentation is terrible. It should be possible to mount all your downloaded stuff into a folder, but I have yet to figure out how. And despite all its resource usage, it is very slow.

The idea is amazing (peer-to-peer, content-addressed storage), but the implementation is extremely lacking.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

It's got lots of great ideas (combining what's essentially a giant git repo with bit torrent), but in practice it's pretty slow to do anything 

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it's just that the most popular client for it isn't very good at managing very large archives.

I'm guessing there's probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn't one I'll make one, but I don't want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists...

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 69 points 3 days ago (7 children)

not sure if it's very related but apparently spotify is killing their api. hopefully annas releases proper dumps that can replace it..

https://old.reddit.com/r/spotifyapi/comments/1qxv9wm/spotify_api_changes_were_doomed/ (screenshot attached)

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course it can't replace it, it's a point-in-time archive.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

yeah sure, but it should cover up the vast majority of stuff except new releases

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[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hope Anna's has a good Onion site setup... Cause they are gonna probably have to rely on that soon enough.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm always astonished of how underused it's the dark net for these kind of projects. Most torrent sites doesn't have a dark net mirror despite how easily they get blocked in the clearnet.

[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 day ago

I'd like to see more of this as well, I only know of 3 and one of those isn't onion it's i2p.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because they want people to actually use them.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

More people should use the anonymous internet using tools like I2P and Tor. Hopefully that'll be a silver lining with all the governments around the world cracking down on freedom of speech and increasing censorship.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

I don't believe they have one, it's long overdue however

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[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 3 days ago (26 children)

While their intentions are good, this will unfortunately probably lead to them losing their last two domain names.

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand the concern, domain names are cheap and easy to get, they can just keep using new ones. Why does it matter if they lose the ones they have?

Piratebay used to do the domain dance all the time back in the day (and maybe still do).

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's more about users being able to find them again. If they lose all domain names, it becomes difficult to figure out which are the new ones.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 23 points 2 days ago

Just look up on wikipedia

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fmhy.net usually has a working domain of AA

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

https://open-slum.org/ (not sure what's up with it atm, use the 2nd one)

or

https://open-slum.pages.dev/

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago

Anna's Archive when they find out piracy is illegal 🙀

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

The pirate bay is still able to find domains so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

I2P can do torrents. Magnets are easy to host on Tor

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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago
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