Proud to live in a place that doesn't care and also proud of my ISP for posting articles on how to torrent stuff on their main website lol

And that's why I have a seed target of 0.9, so I'll never have seeded the entirety of anything.

Don't VPN into those evil, authoritarian countries.

Not all heroes wear capes 🫡

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My qBT has most stuff "queued" but seldom ever "seeding" for some reason.

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 🤷

It’s Kelly tho

Kelly is incredible

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.

I've seeded hella stuff just by forgetting to turn off my torrent program.

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

What’s so hard to understand? Anyone who wants trumpblowingclinton.jpg can request it from anybody else on the internet who has it.

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

It's quite simple: you get to find actionable content without needing to enter someone else's Ponzi scheme. It is well known and documented that most private trackers are crap (eg.: the recent YGTL news) and even if they weren't, they are still not really a good (or even medium) option for situations like people behind CGNAT.