"Ideally, there would be multiple servers that automatically sync to each other, yet they would be maintained by different people or groups. They would be less like mirrors and more like independent git repositories, with automated pull and merge with trusted peer servers."
You are describing Zeronet/IPFS and other darkweb protocols.
Thanks for the response, but I suspect that they simply don't have the feature and I doubt they'd be willing to manually go through everything and categorise it. I'm also not willing to maintain blacklists either - don't have the time/effort really.
Sorry about that. Perhaps hope that kind souls are willing to go to the effort of categorising new entries by posting them to TT/AniDex.
Okay, I've gone to the effort to dump some databases, data available at https://animetosho.org/test/ I haven't been fetching all Nyaa metadata (only really pulled what I needed), but from what I've seen, it's probably better than most other sources. Hope that's what you were looking for.
Ideally, there would be multiple servers that automatically sync to each other, yet they would be maintained by different people or groups.
It sounds good, but I can't see it happening. Site owners generally don't seem to be interested in spurring competition. If your data is available elsewhere, you can't easily plaster ads over your site and expect good revenue.
Conflicts would also be a pain to deal with, assuming uploads can be performed against any node. A replicated setup may be more practical than a completely decentralised model. Then again, the interest in this is pretty low. People only care when something like this happens, but will get over it in a few months.
Torrents are "complicated" compared to a streaming site, but if you can just open your browser and click a link, then watch away, then I'm not sure what you say would the showstopper be for SAFE streams versus HTTP streams. Which is how it should be: the technical details need to disappear for it to become mainstream, and exactly because that's the goal is why I think it will become mainstream.
ppl would have stopped using them long time ago because of those cons. But there's still a considerable amount of ppl who still uses those mediums, despite all the pitfalls.
File hosting sites are a pain: full of ads, paywalled, forced to wait, slow download, and so on.
Streaming sites are a mess for the same reason, but how should I don't know, I'm not using them (AnimeFTW is pretty neat and clean, actually; there may be others.)
However, the SAFE Network will be as easy to access as the clear web, so people won't need to consider which one they are using, because it will all look the same: you open your browser, then browse away. Except, nobody can see what you're doing, and nobody can ban what's up there.
Minglong has only a handful of fansub groups that are listed on main page. Picking out anime subbers from that won't be hard but nothing stops anime groups from releasing live-action once in a while or vice-versa. Most of them will probably post on TT and the rest will be posted on TT by someone else so I don't think there's need to hurry and make quick solutions. Plus, they do some DDL themselves.
When torrenting becomes impossible, ppl will use filehosting sites. And then that becomes impossible, ppl will use streaming venues. As long as ppl can access things over HTTP, darknet won't become mainstream.
04/05/2017 03:02 — ThatClockworkPlanetGuy