For too long imo, piracy had become a “grab it all” environment. The old “Caring is Sharing” mantra seems to have disappeared. So maybe, this Lemmy could revert back 20-30 years to become a real sharing community. IDK.

  • elimardi@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I was not born 30 years ago, but I’d like to embrace more the “caring is sharing” mantra. I wonder what’s your ‘workflow’/management of your uploads to seed? as in it takes storage and so on, so what are your best practices folx?

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      1 year ago

      A seedbox transformed torrenting for me, but now I only use Usenet for movies/tv and Mobilism & Anna’s Archive for mags and books.

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      1 year ago

      Born 35 years ago, was a teen during the rise of torrents.

      I have a hard disk dedicated to transient torrents. Separate hard disk for archival and perma seed.

      Everything goes into transient with minimum ratio of 5.0 by default (I forgot the minimum time, but it’s probably two weeks or a month). Sometimes I upgrade good things and upgrade them to archival and set them to seed forever.

      I do remember capping my upload to 50% or so of my maximum upload, as well as limiting the number of downloading torrents (5) as well as active connections per torrent (around 100). You’ll have to play around with this one to suit your own connection.

      After that I just use without much thought, and only remove torrents that have automatically stopped without much worry.