Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Kiwix - they have downloads of various educational resources including subsets of Wikipedia which can be taken on a USB-stick to far off remote places that don’t have reliable internet access.
You can find the available downloads at library.kiwix.org
Archive.org has a bunch that you can help with.
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Ban? Like, making possession illegal? Like, they will be wiped from YouTube?
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Tor (Tails Iso), other linux isos, internet archive stuff in public domain
Isn’t tor risky with police?
Sorry I wrote with haste (Updated my original comment), I meant to say Tails which for those who dont know is an anonymous linux live OS that is preconfigured to use Tor. So I was talking about seeding the Tails disto img.
As for Tor and running a node , it depends on the country. I have been running a non exit node for years with no issues in Europe.
Debian Trixie just released, so…
Linux distros often have torrents for their ISOs.
I’m building this hosting service and while testing the torrent aspect of it I uploaded the Linux mint torrent and I’ve been seeing it ever since.
In general, most large FOSS torrents benefit from additional seeders (although I don’t think many are in lack thereof). Beyond that, I think I vaguely remember wikipedia and internet archive having a torrent component.
Linux ISO, wikipedia and maybe even Openstreetmap.
Linux ISOs
Depending on your jurisdiction, popular torrents on archive.org
The large wikipedia(and others datasets) .slob files used for AARD2 and other offline readers.
Your favorite Linux distro.
Wikipedia zim
