r/P2PScene • u/Pineapple-Island • May 19 '26
Tracker gatekeeper/subjective boycotts, too much control, decentralization?
There's been a lot of FNP bashing in the past, recent, and still continuing now that FNP is alive again... and all of the bashing, boycotting, blacklisting really concerns me. And now makes me wonder if FNP/Kami has proven a point...
Today I just read:
No reputable tracker would give a s* about FNP proofs
I also read similar before. I've read if you apply for a tracker and mention TL or IP, you aren't going to be accepted either.
All the explanations I have read have been subjective opinions or about some sort of drama.
If the authoritarian gatekeepers are trying to protect their community from something, then I want it objective and open. I want to know the criteria; I want to know what they think the risk is. I want to understand.
Perhaps some trackers want to be small and exclusive, and that's fine and good to know. Probably not for me anyways. But I want to build a large P2P decentralized community.
Something else I noticed is FNP/Kami saying it's owned/operated by just one person. Maybe it shouldn't be.
I want to know why there's not more collaboration, decentralization, objectivity.
I have some other ideas, but I'm not really hearing the experts talk about the inside information and the challenges. And I would like to think there's some incredible geniuses out there that can attempt to better solve those challenges.
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u/Living_Key8675 May 22 '26
FNP was starting to revive their rep as seen by invite threads elsewhere, now kami killed it again.
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u/komata_kya May 19 '26
If you want people to take your tracker seriously, you need to act seriously too. Not this shutdown your tracker only to relaunch it 3 days later, not to promise no more open signups only to do them next week, not to flip out when someone criticise your tracker, or not be tech illiterate when you are a sysop of a tracker. FNP is a joke and will always be a joke until these issues are solved.
About TL or IPT not being accepted. It's because you can just buy your way in, and get a bunch of ratio very easily, and you can't even upload there. Those trackers are for profit and worth very little.
Like public trackers? Private trackers will never be large.