brickfrog

Yes, some of the old staff rebooted the site after the main admin passed away a while back. It's not quite the same as the old one (all the old accounts are gone, old torrents from the old site are gone) but otherwise it's still around. In terms of public / semi-private torrent sites it's probably one of the easier ones to join and upload at.

See the Torrentfreak articles for an overview

https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-staffers-launch-new-site-to-keep-the-legacy-alive-190724/

https://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-founder-deimos-is-believed-to-have-passed-away-190416/

It is but they do have a manual process now. See their forums https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-New-TPB-accounts-available

Unfortunately most public torrent indexers tend to restrict ability to upload so it's not quite that straightforward.

There's a few you can investigate, let us know how it goes.

• 1337x - Not sure what their registration requirements are, if any.
• ~~Angie Torrents - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements. (their website isn't great, maybe check out the others before trying here)~~ Might be down?
• BitSearch - Mainly a torrent DHT crawler/indexer but they do offer the ability to add new torrents to their search index (both BitSearch and SolidTorrents)
• Demonoid - I'm pretty sure registered users can upload there, keep an eye on when they open registration.
• GloTorrents - They do have specific uploading requirements so probably not for you but maybe will help others, see their forums https://forums.glodls.to/threads/uploading.5/
• SolidTorrents - Mainly a torrent DHT crawler/indexer but they do offer the ability to add new torrents to their search index (both BitSearch and SolidTorrents)
• The Pirate Bay - They have a manual registration process explained in their forums https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-New-TPB-accounts-available
• TorrentFunk - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements.
• YourBittorrent - They seem to have registration/uploads, unsure of any requirements.
• Ext - They have registration/uploads per https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3401527

Also note that many of the russian torrent forums do seem to allow registering & posting torrents but am unsure of their specific requirements. Also non-english. (ruTracker, Rutor, etc.)

EDIT: Added Ext

EDIT: Fixed SolidTorrents link, crossed out Angie Torrents for now

I tried it out a while back but wasn't too impressed, it still has a ways to go. During testing what I did was write a script to pin (aka "seed") any public torrent downloaded in qBittorrent into IPFS. My goal was to see if anyone ever found/downloaded my pinned content via the available IPFS search engines.

But the reality is that the available IPFS search engines were crap, they sound nice in theory but are so bad at finding/indexing anything. It was rare that anything I had pinned in IPFS would show up in a search engine let alone someone find it & attempt to download it themselves. There's still a lot of work to do.

The IPFS software itself also had a lot of performance/memory leak issues, I never could get it to run long term before it crashed & I'd have to figure out how to restart it or wipe its data & start over.

The other issue is that the IPFS project sort of feels like it's treading water. The IPFS devs went on to create Filecoin & seem more focused on that nowadays. Think of Filecoin as IPFS + cryptocurrency, so you have the privilege to pay people to pin/host ("seed") your data. And to top it off the Filecoin version of the IPFS network is incompatible with original IPFS network. Funny since it's the same devs but also is a bit illuminating that they purposely designed it that way.

From OP's link under the "operate a Snowflake proxy" section

You can join thousands of volunteers from around the world who have a Snowflake proxy installed and running. There is no need to worry about which websites people are accessing through your Snowflake proxy. Their visible browsing IP address will match their Tor exit node, not yours.

A Snowflake proxy is not a Tor exit node.

Store them offline. A simple USB stick with screenshots of your QR codes & backup codes would cover this.

Some people also print them out to keep offline but you'd need a printer handy to do that.

TBH I've never understood why someone would store backup/recovery codes in the same application they store their passwords in. If your password storage is compromised then you'd indeed be completely and utterly compromised when the attacker also has your backup/recovery codes.

Not only that, these presumably would all be old posts/comments being re-posted with current date/time. Maybe best to make sure the specific community or instance you're sending this to accepts old Reddit content.

Interestingly this could be a use-case for Lemmy users having their own self named communities where they can dump old post/comment data into if they wish. e.g. for you it would be https://sopuli.xyz/c/MentalEdge (if it had existed).

I have a peer with static IP address, is there any tools to extract what he/she was downloading?

Not directly, that's not how the bittorrent protocol works.

That website you reference doesn't work the way you are thinking it would work, it does not examine an IP address & then somehow figure out what it is downloading (this is impossible). That website does exactly what every other copyright troll service would do, they monitor specified torrents, load them in their own torrent software, save all the current peer IP addresses associated with that torrent, then they claim you were downloading that.

So with just an IP address no you could not do anything like that. You'd need to scour the internet for as many torrents as possible, load all the current peer IPs into a massive database, then you can search the IP address in your database & see what comes up. In other words you need to know the torrent(s) before you know the peer IP addresses.

Note this is currently optional according to the admin. Torrent links/hashes are fine to post here. See earlier discussion that

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18438

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Haha, yes the same frog with a brick from the other site.

I do also recognize the bear with a hammer, welcome to the Fediverse :)

See the earlier posts

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/423973

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/113452

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95783

Most people have settled on TorrentGalaxy, 1337x, Rutracker, etc. Or work your way into private torrent trackers, they were always better than RARBG anyway.