• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 hours ago

    Seeding shouldn’t be done on ratios - being the only one seeding 10 seasons of a tv show and getting it to 0.4:1 is way more helpful than seeding the same movie as everyone else and getting to 20:1, you’re noy contributing anything there other than decreasing your bandwidth for things that aren’t already at 100,000% availability

    • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
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      7 hours ago

      Seeding to ratios is self correcting, in my inexperienced opinion as I only share ISOs.

      Unpopular thing sits on someone’s computer (not mine) for ages just happily waiting until it’s useful. Popular thing is in and out. Purely for files intended to be churned; try a distro (in facebook’s case a book), use it, and delete it.

      1:3 could be said to be a minimum (1 for to pay back, 1 to pay forward, and 1 to pay for a leecher)

      Things that are going to be archived can be set as limitless as long as strain on hardware can be tolerated.