• Wander@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    It’s like BitTorrent. There’s seeders and then there’s leechers who just want their free stuff and stop sharing immediately afterwards.

    Some have more principle than others.

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      1 year ago

      I think you mean there are Lemmy users (qbittorrent) and Reddit users (utorrent).

      Can’t convince them what they’re using is bad and that there are better alternatives.

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        1 year ago

        Still can’t believe people use uTorrent even though it became malware so long ago. Like come on guys, really? There are a ton of way better clients like qBit and Transmission, and they are just stuck in their own ways to their detriment.

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          I think the craziest part is those who know, so they stay on a “safe” version released in 2010…

          Nothing like using a 13 year old piece of software despite there being way better up to date alternatives.

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            1 year ago

            Okay, that’s just crazy. I have been beginning to suspect people are a lot dumber than I originally thought, and this helps confirm that.

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          1 year ago

          I have friends who still default to utorrent. Every time I see their desktops with utorrent in the taskbar, I let out an audible WTF and show them the light (qBittorrent).

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure I’m able to seed, unfortunately. College network doesn’t seem to like port forwarding, and Mullvad disabled port forwarding recently. That and I don’t have a lot of storage space and I’m worried about getting a scary letter from my ISP. At least the scene I’m in is more DDL-based than torrent-based. Makes things easier.