BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client

Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by ComodoHacker on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:12AM (#30696445)

From the Features page, looks like the main differentiator is social and content features:

* Tag Discovery to discover what other users have tagged content with. This can be very helpful before deciding to download the content.

* Decentralized ratings and comments. You can view them before the torrent is added to BiglyBT.

* Decentralized public and anonymous chats with default channels for individual torrents, tags, subscriptions, and trackers

* Media Playback

* Media Conversion (Transcoding)

* UPnP Media Server and DLNA support, allowing devices to connect and browse your content, and allowing BiglyBT to send content directly to devices.

https://www.biglybt.com/features.php

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by 88840-8855 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:08AM (#30697023)

how does the anonymous chat work? wont you be able to see the ips from the peers?

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by londons_explore on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:39AM (#30697205)

It could theoretically route your chat messages through other peers so nobody knows if you wrote the message or you're forwarding it for someone else.

Such a scheme seems open to spam by design. I don't think there's any way to handle spam/moderation in a fully anonymous decentralised network.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by toyg on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @08:53AM (#30698147)

> I don't think there's any way to handle spam/moderation in a fully anonymous decentralised network.

Surely you could have small bayesian engines running in each client, and coordinate ratings through DHT. It would still have the issue of somebody potentially abusing such engine to effectively DDOS certain types of messages (e.g. mentioning a certain party), but you could try and fight that with modern consensus techniques from the cryptocurrency world.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by danuker on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:02AM (#30698949)

Reminds me of https://notabug.io/ which makes you sacrifice some CPU in order to vote.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by RobertMiller on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:01AM (#30698939)

> Surely you could have small bayesian engines running in each client,

If each client has a copy of the filter, then so does the spammer. The spammer can use that to craft spam the filter doesn't catch.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by toyg on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:12AM (#30699075)

The lack of filter availability doesn't stop spammers bypassing even Google's uber-filters, so it's not much of an argument really. The arm race is what it is. The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by RobertMiller on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:20AM (#30699151)

> The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified.

Then you need a system for distributing filter updates, and preventing the spammers from distributing bogus filter updates. Isn't this basically just the same problem as before?

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by toyg on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:30AM (#30699272)

That's why I said that injecting some modern consensus-finding strategies could be an idea.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by DoItToMe81 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:54AM (#30696025)

I'd like to know this, too. What sets it apart? I'm especially curious about performance, because both Deluge and qBittorrent chug a little bit on my machine when I have too many torrents listed.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by xbmcuser on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:09AM (#30697031)

Qbittorrent recently introduced sql based resume file it is advanced option in beta I see an improvement with about 1000 torrent. Though for 1000+ torrents most people recommend rtorrent.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by bayindirh on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @03:07AM (#30696085)

You can limit qBittorrent pretty nicely with a cgroup if you're on Linux. It won't crash and won't lose much performance.

I'm forcing it to use between 75 and 125MB and it doesn't complain.

Note: I'm using "nox" variant as a user service and control via a web browser.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by ce4 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:31AM (#30696533)

There's also an Android app:

BiglyBT, Torrent-Downloader (ad free, open source torrenting for phones, tablets, Chromebooks & Android TV) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.biglybt.android.client

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by haunter on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:09AM (#30696420)

Or picotorrent https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

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