Everyone here may be familiar with the MusicBrainz project. But much like Wikimedia, the foundation behind the project has quite a few lesser known open data projects:
AcousticBrainz acoustic information
ListenBrainz user listening habits
CritiqueBrainz music reviews
BookBrainz information about published literature
The torrenting idea sounds really cool. Torrents are an amazing technology and they’re definitely underused. Imagine if the Libre world regularly distributed, say, lossless music albums via torrents that were catalogued and easily searchable. Actually now that I think about it, the creator of Funkwhale might actually be interested in this idea! I’ll shoot a suggestion in their direction, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already thought about it haha.
This is my other main project: https://torrents-csv.ml
That’s a sample server there (which is kinda slow because it got added to a LOT of indexers), but you can also self host it locally. The entire database of pretty much all common torrents is actually pretty tiny, only about ~70 MB, which is why its impossible to take down things like the thepiratebay, so I just decided to create an open source
.csvrepo of them.You can search for not only all popular torrents, but also the files within torrents, so like https://torrents-csv.ml/#/search/file/frasier s05e08/1 .
That’s really neat, but I was thinking more along the lines of free cultural works. Much like what Peertube already does, but for everything. Like the search and index features of Funkwhale but with everything libre culture.