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In my opinion, FMHY has turned into a search engine (they have more than 10,000 links) rather than a simple list of resources.

That is why I am planning on creating a simple and mentainable list of resources, where all of the links would be checked periodically in Virustotal and offline websites would be removed almost instantly.

Which bring me to the following question, what is the best service to host this, any suggestions(preferably open source)?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would you only be duplicated content from wikis already available and simply cherry picking from those lists instead? I don't see how FMHY is difficult to navigate. Yes it has 10,000 links, but you go to the topic you need and it has 10-20 links of which you can pick and choose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My project would be a easy link, that when you visit you just are one to two clicks away from resources that is 100% working.

So my approach would be kind of idiot proof, you won't need to navigate through trillion menus or visit a list of bad quality websites till you find what you want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Idk what FMHY is but if its not this then what youre talking about already exists.

However, that list, while still mostly good, has been slowly turning... Not great.

Lemmy.dbzer0 has a list they maintain that is almost identical but better maintained. I'd post a link but idt it will work for you if you're not a member of the instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is the lemmy.dbzer0 megathread really better maintained? It was last updated on March 3, 2024, unlike the original piracy megathread that was updated last August 29.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To my knowledge the recent update on the reddit megathread was because users were getting malware from one of the links. Its why I moved here, actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Good to know, thanks! I'll stick with dbzer0's megathread from now on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Weird, I thought it's the pne linked in the sidebar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

lol I hadn't clicked the sidebar link. Looks like it takes you to rentry as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

BTW, FMHY is a list which has a good amount of resources as same as the megathread, but as I said they contain too much resources that it bacame a search engine rather than a list.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Can you please post the link?

I will see if I can access it, to check if their list is better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/

Sorry I had to find it, which isn't easy on my phone, for some reason.

ETA: Also, if it works for you, please let me know so I can offer it to others as well!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, it works for me.

But that is still too much links, currently I might create a list on sntry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can optionally create and maintain your own list on our hosted wiki. Any dbzer0 user can access the wiki to create/edit pages.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the info, but I require a easy to remember link.

It would be easy to remember the link for me especially and for others as well.

I am usually a perfectionist, so it's going to take some time for me to plan it and create the list.

I am gonna share it with the community when I am done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What I think is missing is a kind of signed database version control system. So you make a list of data (maybe just a markdown table) and you sign it wiht a private key and put that in a DHT / distributed hashtable. Then people can use that and you can update the database / list. People can also fork this list, add their own stuff and distribute it as their own and signed with their own private key. And you could have pull requests and merge back good additions. All without requiring proper servers but possibly benefiting from being hosted on a seedbox.

And of course a simple client to find and view such lists.

Ideally you'd have some template that describes typical metadata for a kind of distribute movie database, but also books, subtitles, songs, albums, articles, scientific papers, fonts. But you can also fork the templates and extend them. So you might have a perfectly legit open source database of movies with links to what legit streaming service is selling it, and then an extra template that extends that with magnet releases.

I have never seen something like this though, my puny brain has trouble imagining the technical hurdles. Maybe this could just be done with a simple version control system client. I think torrent V2 also has some extensions that allow update-able torrents (which some FUD confused with this being the default). Or maybe it's that proper web pages allow people to make money through advertising.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

hat I think is missing is a kind of signed database version control syst

You're basically describing a blockchain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think it would be easier, since it does not require agreement on transaction between two parties, only signing your own transaction. Anyone can fork and clone anything, and then add to their own signed version. All that is required is that you cloned from an existing trusted version and you made these changes to it. It's easy to verify.

It only requires that the user can select some release group that they trust and store their public key.

[–] didnt1able 1 points 1 month ago

More like IPFS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

dbzer0 wiki ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] proxy 1 points 1 month ago

If you have some programming knowledge and experience with servers, you could consider setting it up on a VPS.