Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :)

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :)

short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests!

towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop !

PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714

Discussion: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d8c8-bittorrent-torrent-objects/8309 (or this thread)

#FEP_d8c8 #BitTorrentOverActivityPub #FederatedP2P #BitTorrent

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

torrents are just bundles of hashes and a file layout! they (or v2 torrents at least) are actually a really nice way to do content addressing for files and directories. so when combined with the rest of activitypub, e.g. being able to do updates, sign objects, extend them with additional vocabularies, then you get something very interesting indeed....

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

this FEP is trying to be as minimal as possible: just get a representation of an object. but follow-up FEP wills spec out handling other parts of the protocol, e.g. BEP 0039 style updating using object integrity proofs. so tentatively butterfly memeing "is this mutable torrents"

[cwebber@social.coop]

@jonny oh shi

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

what if a torrent contains self-authenticating signed activitypub objects???? what if we could jump back and forth between federation and p2p?

[carloshr@lile.cl]

@jonny what a great idea! 🤯

[jonny@neuromatch.social]

@carloshr as always, my best ideas are the ones that seem so obvious to me that i figure someone else surely has already had them