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#SignalGroup for preserving the #Myrient #ROM database using #BitTorrent

Myrient is a huge collection of retro games and a very nice project. But as they are based on centralized cloud storage, the immense costs were not sustainable. By building a community of people who seed the files for free, the project can stay alive!

https://signal.group/#CjQKIFzvNuwfFh0pB7sIOqSiggDrZqeN6enZFTvCBhuxVDSlEhBLfn8Jy7Xa3wOZXjcpwq1m

Original Website: https://myrient.erista.me/

Archive Websites:
https://myrient.org/

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[–] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do we really need a signal group for this? Would much rather have the torrents be uploaded to a public tracker

[–] Rhababerbarbar@tux.social 2 points 6 days ago

@turkalino

Absolutely, do that for the ones you like! This is also more low level for people to guide them through the process

[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 16 points 6 days ago

Rather use a messenger that didn't require my phone number like xmpp.

[–] pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Rhababerbarbar@tux.social 1 points 6 days ago

@pizza_the_hutt

The idea is to create a bunch of separate ones. The whole database is huge, 144TB exists on this archive alone

https://myrient.org/