• Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    One of the reasons I don’t seed back is that I can’t - I can’t seem to figure out how to configure correctly despite setting all stuff about ports and connections I can on qbt. One of the problem is that, for privacy reasons, I’m obvs not using my own infra but rather hooking into someone else’s network, so there’s not much really I can change.

    And the other reason is that I tend to rename, change and repack most of the stuff I download (series, games, etc) for size and convenience. Especially, I tend to downscale 1K or 2K movies down to 540p or 720p and I tend to rename and reshuffle files across folders, so that pretty much renders the storage as invalid for seeding the same torrent (unless anyone knows a trick I don’t).

  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I keep downloading rare shit and no one else seems to want it.

    Even the popular stuff seems to only upload for a day or so.

    Also, I think deluge only wants to seed five things at a time then puts everything else as “queued.”

    • Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Keep seeding the rare shit please.

      I know people go on about ratios and yadayada, but the popular stuff will always have seeders, seeding popular stuff is just helping people download quicker.

      Seeding the rare shit means that torrent continues to exist.

      So much stuff has been lost forever and a large part of that is torrents no longer having seeders.