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In the world of file sharing, BitTorrent has long been hailed as the go-to protocol for its efficient initial distribution capabilities. However, when it comes to maintaining availability and ensuring the longevity of shared files, BitTorrent falls short. There are several alternative platforms that make it much easier to share files, allowing the seeder to reorganize the files to their hearts' content without losing the ability to keep seeding to a torrent. Fopnu, eMule, DC++, and Nicotine+ are some of the better alternatives that make sharing a breeze.

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I was reading this GitHub issue about implementing user sync across different instances of Lemmy. I understand that this feature would be beneficial for users with multiple accounts, but I'm wondering if it would be possible to achieve this using a bot instead of implementing it directly in the main program. I noticed that @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com is working on a Python API for Lemmy, which might offer some insights on how to achieve this. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on how this could be done using a bot?

It would be helpful if there were an instance that migrated all of this to Lemmy so that we could access it from any other instance, instead of having to download it for local browsing.

This was data from pushshift before Reddit nuked it in March. You can find this torrent (called "Reddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2022-12") and others, including 2023-01 and 2023-02, on https://academictorrents.com by user Watchful1.

JSON compressed with zstd. You can also grab individual subreddits at https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/

I recently came across a torrent that seems to be an archive of Reddit. It got me thinking if it would be possible to make it locally browsable. However, I also considered the possibility that someone might have already addressed this by creating a public Lemmy instance, enabling the content to be accessible from any federated instance.

I recently came across a torrent that seems to be an archive of Reddit. It got me thinking if it would be possible to make it locally browsable. However, I also considered the possibility that someone might have already addressed this by creating a public Lemmy instance, enabling the content to be accessible from any federated instance.

I recently came across a torrent that seems to be an archive of Reddit. It got me thinking if it would be possible to make it locally browsable. However, I also considered the possibility that someone might have already addressed this by creating a public Lemmy instance, enabling the content to be accessible from any federated instance.

I recently had a disagreement with the lemmy.ml admins, specifically @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml and @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml, regarding an LLM post. One mod claimed that it violated rule 4 (spamming), while the other insisted that I must attribute the content to the LLM. Typically, I use LLMs for most of my posts to correct grammar, spelling, and other aspects, or simply to generate the content given the basic thought. I am seeking an instance where administrators are accepting of LLM-generated posts and do not require any attribution, not even in a general manner like "LLM-generated post."

The admins did not remove the comment; a community mod did. Mods can impose further restrictions on their communities on top of instance-wide rules (within reason, of course), including banning LLMs. Lemmy.ml, at least, does not have a blanket ban on LLMs, but generally, it's expected that 1) you should not post LLMs excessively—mainly, we want to host discussions by humans, and 2) you should disclose that it's from an LLM and specify which one it's from. It is also preferable to add your own comments or analysis to the LLM-generated content. If it's a mix of LLM and your own writing, please mention it at the start of the comment. However, if the community directly disallows LLMs, then you shouldn't post them there at all.

— @AggreableLandscape@lemmy.ml

Thanks for clarifying. I'm deleting your generated comment per rule 4 (spamming), as well as two other generated comments you posted elsewhere. If another admin wants to undelete any of these, I would be surprised.

Please do not post LLM-generated comments without clearly labeling them as such. In my opinion, this is common sense and doesn't need its own rule. Rule 4 is sufficient.

— @cypherpunks

this has been gnerated by an llm and I woudl prefer no t to mentioan it in every pst I wrtie.

If you want to download TV shows before the season is over you have to download episode by episode, but if you wait long after the season ends it may not be seeded. So how can I get notifications to download it shortly after the season ends?

In the past, when searching on a search engine, I would use "site:reddit.com" to narrow down my results. However, with Lemmy having different instances that may contain varying content, I found myself unsure of how to approach searching effectively. While the Lemmy search feature is useful at times, I sometimes miss the convenience of using a dedicated search engine. To address this, I developed a script that formats the most popular instances and allows me to search within them. Nevertheless, I wonder if there is a more convenient method for accomplishing this task. If anyone has any suggestions or tips, I would greatly appreciate it.

Most of you will say that the succesor to eMule is BitTorrent as it is the most widely used P2P network today, but there are some things that BitTorrent lacks and eMule provides. The most notorious for me are the following:

• Built-in network-wide search
• Easy sharing
• Unique links

Maybe you don't consider this features important, but the fact is that with the approach BitTorrent takes, we are highly dependent on central points that make the network vulnerable. With BitTorrent we depend on trackers and link listing websites to share content. A torrent client is useless on its own if we don't have a link listing site to get torrents or magnet-links from. On the other side, with the built-in search eMule provides, one can start downloading without the need for a website to take links from.

Easy sharing is also very important, because it provides more peers to download files from. This is specially important on rare files, because with torrents the seeds to download a file can become scattered between different torrents and there can be 5 different torrents seeding the same data, yet they don't share peers. It is clear that one torrent with multiple seeds is preferred that multiple torrents with one seed each, for example.

When there is one single way to identify a file on the network (like with ed2k hashlinks) even the less tech-savvy users are able to contribute. Sharing on eMule is as simple as dropping the file you want to share on your incoming folder (even if it is not the optimal way to do it). In BitTorrent, you must download an existing torrent file or magnet link, stop the download, replace the half downloaded files with the ones you already had downloaded, making sure that you use the same directory structure and filenames that are defined in the torrent, recheck the torrent and start it, all this in order to share files you had downloaded previously. Tell a noob user to do that to help you download some rare file...

And now imagine that you have an entire drive full of sharing material, but the directory structure and filenames differ from the ones used on the torrents (because you like to keep things ordered in your hard drive). This scenario makes it impossible to share those files on the torrent network without creating brand new torrents, so you can't contribute and be one more seed on already existing torrents.

Why not use eMule then? Because it's slow, inneficient, and there is practically only one client that is no longer actively developed. Searching for alternatives, the most similar program that has various clients and is multiplatform is Direct Connect, but it is not decentralized, and different servers don't communicate with each other, so peers for the same file are not shared globally and instead are scattered around different hubs

Is there really no other program that works the way eMule does? Is there no true spiritual succesor to eMule nowadays?

This is the third account I've created in order to have access to both NSFW and Lemmy.ml. However, since this instance allows NSFW content, it's only a matter of time before Lemmy.ml defederates from this instance, and I'll have to search for another one. I want to federate with an instance that has the fewest blocked users, as I don't want to use multiple accounts to check whether or not I see the same comments from each of them. How can I find this instance?