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 …?

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.world
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    I basically seed forever, and I also upload and fill requests sometimes. I have dozens of terabytes seeding. I see it as my contribution to the preservation of the art, and if I’m going to take up the storage space with it I might as well be seeding it too.

  • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    i usually seed until it reaches seed factor 5. i am planning to set up my NAS to seed indefinetely with a limited bandwidth.

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    For my automated content I go by a factor of 4. Things that I download manually usually also gets ratio 4 but things that are hard to come by or that I really like get unlimited ratio.

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      1 year ago

      This is me, except a ratio of 2. Hard to find things or if it’s taking a long time to download, I let it seed indefinitely

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    1 year ago

    I usually keep the last 1TB of my torrent downloads around for seeding.

    Also part of a DDL group which I gave a few donations to.

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    1 year ago

    I 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 !

  • sparkl_motion@beehaw.org
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    A lot of what I grab doesn’t have a lot of traffic, but I’ll grab and seed at least 5-10x on stuff like new releases to make up for it on IPT.

    I’m on a gigabit fiber connection, so my upload on my seed box is about 5-20mbps constantly.