cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/memes/p/930951/the-next-de-generation

Dude holding the horseshoe magnet is a chef's kiss detail

Posting generational memes from 2016? That's a bold choice.

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 🤷

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 😅

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.

Don't younger people prefer streaming and direct download pirate sites to torrenting anyway

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

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

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.

Some countries have laws that are harsh for seeding (distribution) but not for leeching

Does anyone know a VPN that allows port forwarding that also is truly anonymous? I'm looking for something like Mullvad that does not require email and accepts monero.

I'm also open to recommendations for a seedbox that accepts monero.

is would also like to know

you will get booted off of most private trackers lol (and some public ones)

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

rutracker has rules that you have to have a 0.3 ratio at least, idk if they can do anything if you don't have an account or if that's enforced at all, my ratio's too good to know

edit: no longer the case as pointed out below

Rutracker used to have such rule many years ago but it is long gone.

thanks for correcting, ig they didn't update the wiki page

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

It’s Kelly tho

Kelly is incredible

That is really helpful, thank you so much!

What is a tracker? 😅 I'm super ignorant about this stuff lol

airvpn

Either a website hosting and cataloguing torrent files (or magnet links, doesn't matter), or a special server that doesn't host anything and just helps communicate the peers (people seeding and leeching). Both are commonly called that

edit: i meant the first one in my previous comment btw

A while ago I told a young co worker that I just download whatever tv series I want, and since then they seem to be under the impression I have hundreds of USB thumbsticks lying around for storage. I hate to generalise but they really don't seem to get anything about piracy.

For multi file torrents you would have

Is there a reason or you're just selfish?

Don't VPN into those evil, authoritarian countries.

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

Or do, what are they gonna do about it if I don't really live there? Fuck 'em.

"No, I have 3 4tb drives and 5 1tb drives. I mean I do have 15 sticks around but most of those have a linux distro on them and the others are for general use."

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.

im doing my part :3

Not all heroes wear capes 🫡

My hard drive is now failing because i let like 2tb of torrents seeding for 2 years and now im having some problems to buy a new HD

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.

But your honour, I only beat him to within an inch of his life. What do you mean, guilty???

youre a leecher because you dont care to contribute, im a leecher because i forget to turn on qbittorrent, we are not the same

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

That’s on them for using lousy websites. I can stream in full 1080p while using adblock so I never have to deal with ads (why would anyone stream anything without adblock, that is THE fastest way to get a virus omg)

full 1080p

Really doesn't mean anything. A 1080p movie can be 2gb and it's technically still 1080p. But a 1080p Bluray is 20-30GB. Resolution is a small part of quality.

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