whoever loves Digit

If you’re talking about downloading the same file twice, you can also pause the torrent, put the finished file in the folder it would be downloading to (make sure it fully matches, same name) then right click the torrent and select “force recheck” to make your client see it has it already

Definitely useful for helping prevent content from being taken down. Torrents remain searchable through DHT but without seeds they’re just clogging search results

I’m not surprised at all. It’s like Tom and Jerry. If the cat catches the mouse, the show is over.

The only thing I have any optimism about in US politics right now is Zohran Mamdani. Just enough optimism to wait until he’s mayor before judging him.

So? Not like the people are gonna do anything about it. Democracy has chosen a dumb criminal yet again and will choose another one next without doing anything about each one

I think a VPN with port forwarding helps make your library discoverable on soulseek, but I don’t know enough to answer beyond that

No u

Hard to get a positive seed ratio this way, but definitely seems like best bet for someone that can’t afford airvpn

Public WiFi exists and it’s also pretty easy to get free condoms.

Borrowed WiFi is definitely your best bet. Find a place with a fast public WiFi network you can reach from your car.

Nah, anyone that pretends BitTorrent is worse than their server-based thing is just foolish

They’d get to use the service in exchange for seeding it, not lose money

I won’t pay Monero to support web apps that will always cost more and more money to run. The “web” is a scam standard. I’ll use it while everyone’s using it, but I encourage everyone to develop and move to decentralized P2P networks where we rely on something like BitTorrent seeders to support image hosting, not Monero being converted to dollars.

If the people running this are losing money to support the community, I absolutely give them my thanks. But I won’t join them.

Could be fluid dynamics but that’s already water. Maybe they should be hydraulics and pneumatics or something

Everyone has already suggested soulseek, so I will also add that on rare occasions I’ve been able to find downloads with Yandex that I couldn’t find on soulseek or anywhere else.

Curious to know more but not much time right now. Will read and reply if you want to tell me more

Not sure what you mean. You can use nostr entirely with Tor, which is still somewhat centralized but that’s not nostr’s fault / should be improved in the near ish future hopefully

Agreed. I’m not sure what the links here are trying to say or do. It kinda seems like they’re just saying a lot of nothing while ignoring solutions like nostr

My phone is going to stop getting updates one day, and then there might not be a new version of the same phone without “certified Android” locking me out of choosing my own apps.