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c/degoogle · by cm0002@toast.ooo · 74d

What is Torrent-Tube?

https://github.com/dessalines/torrent-tube

Torrent-Tube is a set of tools to help decentralize YouTube videos, by moving them to torrents, which can be shared by many people. It includes:

  • A Torrent-Tube search site which searches the Torrents-csv search engine to see if the given YouTube video already exists, and is being seeded.
  • It does this by extracting the YouTube [VIDEO_ID] from a link, which you can also do manually if you like (IE, the text after watch?v=...).
  • A script to check for previously made torrents, and if there are none, then download, and create torrent files from YouTube videos, with a uniform naming style and format, taken from TheFrenchGhosty's YouTube-DL-Scripts.
  • You will need to upload these torrent files yourself to a service (details below), and seed them.
  • You can also post these videos to lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/torrenttube, with the magnet link as the URL, and a webp video thumbnail contained in the videos/MY_VIDEO folder.

lemmy.dbzer0.com Torrent-Tube community

Torrent-Tube Search

Torrents-CSV Search

Future plans

  • Create a browser plugin that checks a video link that you're currently watching for existing torrents.
  • Create a UI for viewing these additions. (The lemmy.dbzer0.com community works for now)
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5 Comments

Tundra@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 74d

It really shouldnt be hosted on github - how long until google gets this taken down?

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 74d

I've been just free voting them over to my server

lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 73d (2 replies)

Wait isn't Dessalines a prick? Can't remember what for, only that they're heavily disliked. Are they a .ml mod?

Edit: Co-creator of Lemmy and a "tankie", it seems, and many folk don't like the way Dessalines runs their instance. Good thing we have others to choose from

cm0002@toast.ooo · 2 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Co-creator of Lemmy and a "tankie", it seems

Yea, lol, writes decent software though and mostly keeps their ideology out of the code

::: spoiler Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

Dessalines, head .ml admin, lead Lemmy dev actively spreading genocide denialism https://sh.itjust.works/post/61371958

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team. :::

lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 73d

Yeah despite the slander I don't see a reason not to use their programs.