Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital: 'The new owners are here… not sitting in a distant tower, remotely directing us all towards some nefarious goals'
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"We won’t compromise on what’s made Nexus Mods special."
  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    663·
    3 months ago

    Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Would a federated discovery frontend work? Peertube’s back end of the service would probably work great as a starting point since it uses torrents to ease up on traffic for individual servers

      • Decenta Lyzed@aus.social
        1·
        5 days ago

        @daniskarma
        just use magnet:// links, and optionally ZeroNet if you really require html site.

        Gnutella2, e2dk:// had network wide plain text search function.

        @mnemonicmonkeys
        unfortunately WebTorrent is not feasible due inability of web browsers to participate in current DHT network.

        Find freedom by abandoning https web. In real p2p there is no distinction between fronend or backend, all peer equal.

        @games

    • d00ery@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Seems like a good idea. I wonder if there’s anything already similar. It’d be a real treat to see a VC company get shafted.