• tenchiken@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Feels a bit off the mark… The private tracker communities I frequent seem pretty lively.

    Public torrents were never something I understood for anything not open source.

    Leeching is just a minimal issue to be dealt with by community blocking. Most communities are flexible in the rules to allow for providing in other ways if constant uploading isn’t an option.

    I suspect the joke here is that there’s always someone trying to bitch about leeching. The Internet has always been trash, blah about the good ol days etc.

    Maybe people just idolized the way they initially learned and now blame others when changes happen.

    Remember kids, advertising is evil and copyright infringement is the only ethical solution.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Tbf, torrenting without seeding is currently relevant, given the Facebook AI lawsuit in progress…

      As for making it a generational thing, that’s a decision by the artist that I personally don’t agree with 🤷

        • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
          English
          1·
          28 minutes ago

          I’m trying to convert some of my (alarmingly) slightly younger friends to torrent trackers. So far so good

          edit: and tbf slightly older people are almost as bad about streaming in my experience, so it affects everyone

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          Oh yeah. All my coworkers talk/ask about “sites” which are just streaming sites filled to the absolute brim with ads and all the videos are low bitrate. Kinda sad ngl

  • Cris_Citrus@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I have never been good about seeding because my old laptop sucked and I rarely torrent stuff and dont really underestand what the ettiquite is or what seeding actually entails. I always kinda worried it’d keep my computer awake all the time and like use battery, or consume computational resources while I’m trying to use it

    Anyone wanna give me the lowdown on seeding, etiquette, and what to expect? I’d like to be better about it, but I don’t have anyone to really learn this stuff from 😅

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz
      English
      1·
      29 minutes ago

      Seeding uses your drive (reads it so long as it’s seeding to someone), your bandwidth (obviously), and a negligible amount of power/computational resources.

      If you have a tracker you trust you could start by reading their guides. Like my most used public tracker tells you to have a ratio of 0.3, meaning for every part/torrent downloaded you seed 0.3 back to the people. I usually stay for at least 1-1.2 until I turn my pc off. If you want to be helpful you could also get some “rare” stuff to seed, same tracker classifies it as having fewer than 5 others seeding it.

      In general, “don’t hit and run” holds true, if you can seed for just an hour after you’ve downloaded your stuff, do it. When it comes to torrenting, we are all we got.