edit 2: thank you to everyone who replied.
edit: What type of leechers are acceptable and what kind are not acceptable according to you?
It’s amazing how much I need others to validate my actions. I wish I could live guilt free without this. But, I can’t, so here I am. Good people of lemmy, judge me
I don’t have a lot of internet. I get like 1.5 GB of internet a dafy and it’s 4G, not truly 4g, more like 0.2 mbps to 4mbps at max and I don’t seed after I am done downloading my torrents. If I had greater amounts of Data, like limitless data or something like 2000GBs per month or something, I would constantly be seeding, but I don’t. Are my actions morally justifiable? I feel guilty when that last seeder seeds me all I need and when someone needs another seeder, I turn off my seeding :(
I mean, I don’t want to do it, but with the data I have, I can’t afford to seed much, what should I do?
I might take some time to reply to you, I ain’t abandoning the thread btw, is https://sh.itjust.works/ down? Just asking, I could not access it today
PS: I seed books and stuff like that. I mean, they are only like 1 or 2 mbs and I seed em when no one else is. But you know other stuff like extra legal videos series, soap operas etc etc are beyond me
for every person who leeches on mobile data and can’t afford to seed, there’s someone who has a freakishly powerful rig that seeds like 17 different torrents 24 hours a day. if you can’t afford to seed, don’t worry about it, because people who can afford to seed often do. things balance out in the end
I don’t have a seed box but I constantly seed a few hundred torrents on my 1 Gbps connection. Many of them I’ve been seeding for over ten years. I couldn’t care less about people like OP. Everyone should just do the best they can. If the best you can do is leech, that’s okay with me.
Everyone should just do the best they can.
That’s the key to most of everyday life. Just do your best.
Being a leecher when you don’t have any alternatives is not something bad.
I leeched when I was on limited bandwidth now I am the sole peer for about a dozen hard to find torrents. Balance in all things.
Leachers are a fact of life. It’s not praiseworthy, but it’s not damning.
Most people don’t usually torrent on mobile data, and if they do it’s understandable that they can’t be expected to give back. It’s fine, maybe in the future when you get broadband you can start seeding back.
From each as per their ability for each as per their need.
I used to be a leacher, even when I had a broadband connection. I never really knew why seeding was important. Now, I try to match the data I have uploaded, at least, if not more. Like, of I download a 50gb of something. I seed at least 50gb before I remove it.
perfectly balanced, like all things should be
Dude, from a much more privileged place, please, enjoy your movies and bring yourself all the happy moments you can get.
I’m a leech because you can get fined in my country for seeding too much
is India one of those countries? Are there perfectly safe ways to seed?
I wouldn’t worry about it, not everyone can have good Internet. You’re doing what you can and that’s okay.
Some people like to rent a seedbox because of this, that way they can download and upload torrents very quickly, especially on private trackers.
Seed > Leech > Disconnected. You’re still providing redundancy for the torrent, but it would be better to seed obviously.
Ganesha would seed, Shiva might leech.
More upload for me
The word is “leech”.
and I am Indian. We mak up wards as we goo ;)
edit: I am making fun of my own kind. It’s a joke, I am not justifying bad spelling and everything. You know American English and UK English differs sometimes in spelling and pronunciation, I was like, yeah, I can call something Indian English and pronounce Cat as Dog, if for nothing else just to piss people off. Again, we must have a language we all agree on to communicate with and this was just a freaking joke, and I resent for having to explain it.
Please keep your Indian goo away from my lemmy instance.
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There is nothing racist about not wanting to be.covered in semen. It’s simple hygiene.
edit: I am making fun of my own kind. It’s a joke, I am not justifying bad spelling and everything. You know American English and UK English differs sometimes in spelling and pronunciation, I was like, yeah, I can call something Indian English and pronounce Cat as Dog, if for nothing else just to piss people off. Again, we must have a language we all agree on to communicate with and this was just a freaking joke, and I resent for having to explain it.
see the edit and I did correct it.
I don’t think you’re a bad person but you wouldn’t be welcome amongst my torrent communities.
It’s fine, if hit-and-run leeching was a huge problem then more trackers would enforce seed ratios. But most don’t, because it’s not. The fact that you mostly leech just means that you can’t most private trackers. Oh well, just use the public trackers instead and seed what you can.
