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 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 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 31 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 (3 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 13 points 1 week ago (4 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 (1 children)

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.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're basically never going to hit a positive ratio if you do things that way. Other people are using RSS feeds to know when something becomes available, then grabbing it on a seedbox. They get the entire thing instantly, then they start seeding to everyone else.

It is possible (but slow) to get a positive ratio if you don't have a seedbox, as long as you grab new things instantly. But, while it will take maybe 20 minutes to download, it will often take days of continuously seeding to hit 1.0.

If your goal is to hit a positive ratio, either get a seedbox or grab things immediately via a feed. If you're grabbing using a feed, you could theoretically grab popular shows even if you're not interested in them. But, it's a bit of a waste of bandwidth to grab something and seed it if you never intend to look at it. Your best bet, if you're trying not to be wasteful, is figure out a show you actually want to watch that's still releasing new episodes. Grab new episodes immediately and seed them.

Even if it's a show where you're still on season 1 and currently season 4 is airing, as long as you'll eventually get to season 4, you're not wasting bandwidth that way.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not arguing with you, it's just a pain in the ass to deal with. I don't mind seeding the shit I download at all but it shouldn't be a fucking competition when it's a requirement to download stuff. Obviously they're not hurting for seeders. IMO a better metric would be having a required seeding time (which they do anyway) and let you download as much as you want as long as you seed it long enough. Like you said I'll never hit a positive ratio, even doing things your way I doubt I'd find enough shit I wanted to build up a big ratio. I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and rely mainly on public trackers and use the private ones only when I can't find what I'm looking for. I actually have quite a high ratio on both the private trackers I use just from seeding stuff for a long time and trading points in so I can download stuff, it just doesn't help my ratio.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I actually have quite a high ratio on both the private trackers I use just from seeding stuff for a long time and trading points in so I can download stuff, it just doesn't help my ratio.

I think this is a good way to use private trackers. Most will have occasional events from time-to-time as well. If you keep seeding everything you get from freeleech, eventually you'll hit a point where your seeding benefits outpace the amount you care to download and you can just download whatever and not care anymore forever. One of mine I hit that point about six years ago and I just totally take it for granted that I can snatch anything I'm curious about. I do not understand the need to care about your ratio beyond being enough to download things you want without losing your userclass perks.

I actually like private tracker forums a lot, they are communities that no organization will ever care to astroturf and that are free of bot posts. You're just talking with people, and as you grow to recognize some of the regulars it feels like a community. Anyway, it's weird how normal most people on those forums are about this stuff considering how if you look at r/trackers you might get the impression that the purpose of these websites is for the users to move up a ladder like it's a game. (Also the consensus on that subreddit is never use a tracker's forums under any circumstances ever because you will 100% be banned for no reason because the mods don't have lives and....what?)

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

They probably used IPT forums.

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

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

last time I gave out an invite to an internet rando I had to check with staff if it was allowed, it was, but the person never used their account so I just wasted an invite

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 6 days ago

Limited invites to give out, scarcity mindset, I've been there myself, so I understand.

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I commend you, that account is considered vintage by now. I don't even remember what computer I was running in 2008.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

There's a private sports tracker I've heard of that rewards long-term seeding. What's cool about that is that most sports events are only relevant for a few days and then people move on, this is especially true for big fans of certain teams who want the latest event. But, if you reward people for seeding, they'll just keep some random game or event around for months. That means that if something suddenly becomes relevant months later, you can probably still find it.

[–] xye@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I just deleted a Reddit account that old haha

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[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Da good stuff

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[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs

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[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 27 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 25 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 10 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 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] ExpertisePredicament@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago

Hoping to hit 400 TB uploaded this year :3

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 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.)

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[–] bobotron@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

pretty proud of my TL ratio

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 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 🤤

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Giving back is good but once I realize how much I hate companies that own the media I have been seeding these Linux iso extra hard out of spite!

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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.

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[–] termaxima@jlai.lu 15 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 16 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 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 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

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I'm doing my part.png

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (9 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 12 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

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

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

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Change the file name in the torrent client :)

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[–] samc@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Session waste"?

Me with lemmy on the toilet.

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

Yay! Good job. Keep going!

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