i wonder how much is left from the very early sharing ideals from the dawn of the internet.
do you juat take or do you offer something?
upload stuff, contribute by seeding, rip, be part of a group …?
Lee Duna ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ) English11•11 months agoI always try to seed whenever I can, since I only have mobile connection
Dreyns ( @Dreyns@lemmy.ml ) English10•11 months agoI seed as much as I can but I still have a 0.75 ratio sadly. I tend to dl random old shit nobody wants so i’m just helping the other weirdos like me. I plan on switchi g to linux and I’d like to set up my computer to be as secure as possible and then maybe upload stuff also.
And like in the old times I bring my hdd with me and share with friends when we meet in person !
Brickfrog ( @brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•11 months agoObvious answer is that people are sharing otherwise you’d have nothing to download :P
For me I usually permaseed, or at least seed back 5-10x if not planning to keep a download. Also have created new uploads at torrent sites and occasionally fill requests.
dotslashme ( @dotslashme@infosec.pub ) English6•11 months agoMinimum 10:1 ratio always
FrostyCaveman ( @FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ) English5•11 months agoI love seeing the seed ratio go up. For new releases it’s common to see 100:1 before I shut em off. My system is pretty disorganised and not automated which is why I manually clean up torrents. I’d love to run some long running seeds in future but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
But yea… SEED NUMBER GO UP
Vuipes ( @Vuipes@kbin.social ) 4•11 months agoI always seed. I also upload stuff, if I don’t find it.
Sabakodgo ( @Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.net ) English3•11 months agoSeeding whenever I can.
atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) English3•11 months agoI seed older stuff. Newer stuff I just get to 2:1 or so and that’s it.
editilly ( @editilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•11 months agoI torrent using my phone 99% of the time, so I try to get to a 2:1 if possible, but large files like tv shows that have upwars of 200 gb take up too much space, and I can’t have multiple seasons downloaded at the same time, so I usually get them up to 1:1 and then download the next episodes
theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) English2•11 months agoMinimum 2:1 for something popular, try to do 3 or 4 to 1 for less popular ones, especially ones with a few seeds and a lot of peers. I don’t uploaf or rip, because I don’t know how, and have no reason to.
formContainer ( @formContainer@feddit.ch ) English2•11 months agoI set my thing up to seed but I think my upload speed is too slow. I occasionally seed slowly and its set to constantly do it but my ratio is not great… If anyone has tips to improve this please let me know!
Yendor ( @Yendor@reddthat.com ) English5•11 months agoAre you port forwarding? You’ll have more possible peers if you have a port open, so better speeds on average.
formContainer ( @formContainer@feddit.ch ) English1•11 months agoI just have default settings at the moment. If port forwarding will help then I will look into it
Shere_Khan ( @Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•11 months agoDoes your tracker support bonus points?
formContainer ( @formContainer@feddit.ch ) English1•11 months agoI have no idea what that even is if I’m being honest
Hubi ( @Hubi@feddit.de ) English1•11 months agoAbsolutely. I used to rip movies myself for my favorite private tracker. It shut down a while ago though, so now I’m just back to regular seeding.
Commiunism ( @Commiunism@lemmy.wtf ) English1•11 months agoI don’t use torrents all that much to be quite honest - I just download and forget about it with my qbittorrent running in the background pretty much 16 hours a day while I’m awake.
Think the highest seed ratio I accumulated doing this was 500 ratio on a 50gb file.
Shere_Khan ( @Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•11 months agoI upload to the snahp forms, and i have found some hard to find stuff for dudes on reddit or whatever, but mostly i just seed
Inkidu ( @Inkidu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•11 months agoI don’t have a lot of stuff that’s not already uploaded. Niche books mostly. I offer x3 the upload on public torrents and indefinite on privates.