jatone

smile thanks for the idea, I have a list of people to try and reach out to. retrovibed does have a free tier. just installing it helps because having users around is at least an indicator I can use in discussions. and it is a fully fledged torrent application so its usable ;)

smile took a year to build it. huge undertaking just between the crappy torrent libraries, userspace VPN, and sandboxing the plugins correctly. but its finally running and mostly usable. i'm sanding the rough edges atm.

I really want to use it to help fund research and public goods like linux distros and even training data. cough research that has been attacked recently... cough

People who are able and interested should check the founders blog post. those who sign up and help really get this off the ground (currently) get to decide what features go in what tiers and help prioritize the feature list.

edit re: record labels

yeah that is a problem but I've accounted for it a bit. first the base tier has enough to cover that cost. secondly most independent artists are not part of those deals and can just sign up. the actual return from this system are up to 7x what spotify/google pay out in streaming revenue not counting the revenue generated from the storage layer.

This is one of the primary reasons why I built retrovibed if people are interested in near cost archival storage + storage cost reductions for shared content + generating revenue for creators of files check it out.

• a builtin well behaved, efficient torrent client
• builtin userspace wireguard vpn (no complicated containers/system setup)
• an actually secure search plugin system. no arbitrary python scripts and no local network/filesystem access.
• local first design - can run fully disconnected from the cloud storage.
• generate revenue for open source projects like distros by downloading and archiving the ISO files. While minimizing the archival storage usage. ~32 people sharing the ISO's only consume 20% of their total size in the archive.
• basic mobile/multidevice support.
• E2E encryption of personal files completely private.

The other reason was I want a media center that worked well for guests at my home when they visit. :)