I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.

Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Private trackers enforce ratios, and good private trackers reward long-term seeding, which is part of why I like private trackers.

I'm very proud of my CG account that turns seventeen next month.

EDIT: No I don't have invites, before anyone asks.

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 25 points 1 week ago

Next year account legal to drink in eu. Marking date to drink one for your account.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have yet to get a positive ratio on anything I've ever downloaded from a private tracker. Always have to sit and wait to accumulate points in their seeding time system... It's annoying because otherwise I'd be seeding a lot more shit for them.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The trick is to use autodl-irssi or autobrr to download the torrent the second it gets added to the tracker. As long as you have a very fast internet connection, you will usually be over 1:1 before it finishes downloading.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 23 points 1 week ago

For that to work I'd have to know what I'm looking for in advance... I don't really have enough media exposure for that. I usually find out about shows/movies I might be interested in after they've been out for months.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

It's definitely not easy, especially if you don't have a seedbox.

I have gotten a good amount of upload, but that's on torrents I have been seeding for literally years at a time.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

EDIT: No I don’t have invites, before anyone asks.

Yeah, this is also a problem though. I'd love to be on a private tracker as I was in the past, but once you're out it's just too much of a hassle to get back in.

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[–] xye@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I just deleted a Reddit account that old haha

[–] DrBabyJesus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I forgot how fantastic Demonoid was around 2008. It was a fucking utopia.

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[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Da good stuff

[–] AbeilleVegane 5 points 1 week ago

We thank you for your service

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This reminds me that I had to limit my public seeding.

Accidentally did 65TB in 18 days.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah... It's still going so fuck it.

To be fair this is actually a linux ISO.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Between my bad Internet connection and my apparent tendency to be the very last person who decides to download any given torrent, I just gave up and paid my private tracker to ignore my seed ratio ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Maybe your VPN or internet doesn’t have port forwarding? That severely limits seeding potential.

I used to think seeding well was impossible, no matter how many files you seed the ratio just doesn’t get better. Then I tried a port forwarding enabled VPN and realised that was my issue.

[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean have you really only downloaded less than 500gb or is almost everything free seed and doesn't count on your download stats.

Eitherway nice seeding, good job

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That's the spirit!
My rule of thumb has always been to share to ratio 1.1. Side thought: Maybe there's a funny correlation between birthrates needing to be 2.1 for a stable population, the extra .1 to make up for deaths, and well, the 2 is because it takes two to make a baby.

Anyway, since we're all sharing, these are my stats from 41 days ago when I switched to Nobara.

(Gigabit internet is the biggest luxury I allow myself to splurge on.)

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can back up those by copying ~/.local/share/qBittorrent and ~/.config/qBittorrent

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[–] bobotron@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

pretty proud of my TL ratio

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good work! Love seeing a fellow seeder on here!

[–] bobotron@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Such a great community. I also love that this thread had just become good ratio porn 🤤

[–] ExpertisePredicament@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago

Hoping to hit 400 TB uploaded this year :3

[–] termaxima@jlai.lu 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wish I could seed but Mullvad doesn’t allow port forwarding, and ProtonVPN has given out IPs under court order so I don’t trust them for any purpose.

I’ll have to look into other VPNs I think, because I’m ideologically very much for seeding.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can still seed without port forwarding. This machine is running behind Mullvad

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is there a guide? I have the same problem.

Edit: seems like that one person in the swarm has to have port forwarding enabled. So if you can't port forward, you need someone else to and then you can upload to them.

Source

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AirVPN is the other choice here that offers port forwarding still.

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[–] clot27@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

Wow I didnt realize I was this close..

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I am seeding a torrent with less than 5 seeders I just let it go forever. So far I have about 15 of those. Eventually I’ll have to drop them… but I’ll be there hero until then.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I miss eMule though. I always loved to share some rare exotic stuff and see someone decided they want that and I provided it. It's not just about bandwidth, though I had pretty big numbers there. Torrents just don't hit the same.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Soulseek is still kicking ass and taking names, bruh

If you're on linux check out the Nicotine+ native linux client for soulseek

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I know, but I still miss my donkey. It was slow but stubborn and always delivered eventually. Also it was mesmerizing watching all the clients and traffic happening and watching KAD nodes visualization. Good times. It's still there but because it now always connects with LowID it doesn't work as good as it did with HighID...

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[–] supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Ed2k/kad network still have good health with new and old stuff

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[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Way to go, keep it up!

Took me a while to find the stats tab, I didnt know it was available lol

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I always lose my seeds because I like to rename my files. Any workarounds?

[–] samc@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Change the file name in the torrent client :)

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[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

Yay! Good job. Keep going!

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Mines alright seed just long enough to stay afloat

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I just use a Debrid service for my torrents now. Consistent 1Gbps download speeds and no ratios to worry about. It's way better (and cheaper) than a private tracker or a seedbox.

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My seed ratio is 1.2. I'd seed more, but I download a lot of different things and my home server is limited on space at the moment.

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get a gig down but only 50mbps up (fucking spectrum), so I gotta limit seeding the same way or I'd just crush my upload speed all the time.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Session waste"?

Me with lemmy on the toilet.

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ratios are a things of a past. I'm having trouble getting ratios as all of the torrents I have are straight zeros in the upload section. I still keep them around for a while just out of habit, but just to verify it's working I've downloaded some random file with high leech ratio. Got it in fast, but upload is now going at less than 5% the upload capacity. Back in late 00s running torrents would instantly saturate the entirety of my 10mbit connection, and I'd like to think that terabytes I've seeded during that time make up for my abysmal ratios nowadays. But the reality is that there just simply is enough seeders already, and as a result the trackers I frequent to either dropped it entirely or switched to a scoring system based on how much and for how long people store obscure torrents that only few people seed, but I'm too short on drive space to participate in that.

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[–] Chastity2323@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm such a leech :( stupid ISP data cap. I'll make it up someday

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

You can always get a seedbox (if you’re able and willing to spend a few bucks a month on a seedbox)

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

It's been at the same ratio for the last 3 years.. Never managed to get more..

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