yeah this has got me second guessing hosting my own instance as well.

I’m not nor was I angry, just being honest.

They don’t. Only shitty trackers. Every tracker I use has zero ads. A thing called private trackers exist. Every good torrent site has zero ads.

If you can’t get in a private tracker and don’t want ads, usenet is better than public trackers anyways.

Private trackers >/= usenet > public trackers

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Of course he didn’t. He can’t read

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-two-spirit-means-native_l_62aa0b3ce4b06169ca93c14e

https://www.ihs.gov/lgbt/health/twospirit/

https://www.ncai.org/policy-research-center/initiatives/Pruden-Edmo_TwoSpiritPeople.pdf

https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/the-history-of-two-spirit-folks

https://www.firstpeople.us/articles/the-two-spirit-people-of-indigenous-north-americans.html

https://asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu/courses/earlyamhistory/2020/06/12/understanding-gender-roles-in-native-american-communities-using-computational-analysis/

Indigenous peoples have acknowledged a “third gender” aka non binary for centuries - way before colonization.

How can you say self identifying in regards to sex/gender is a recent ideology when it’s been part of human history for centuries?

Sounds like bland, generic, thoughtless conservative nonsense to eliminate other perspectives (especially when you discount them as new despite existing for centuries)

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some private trackers economies are easier than others and let you benefit off seed TIME rather than upload amount, so as long as you actively seed you still can gain points to gather buffer, etc. So yes it is possible.

Also depends on your internet speeds. I don’t use a seedbox and have done just fine, though I’ve had the luck of having had 300 mbps -> 500 mbps -> gigabit ethernet within the last 5 years.

Lmao some crypto bro was lurking and downvoted this whole comment chain. 😂

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Lmao the crypto bros on reddit are talking about how amazing this is - fucking morons lmao

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Then that just means everything you’re looking for is common or freshly released/uploaded.

Ppl looking for niche content, it’s not gonna be on public trackers as often.

Also the main benefit of private vs Public is that you can find a 10-15 year old torrent of some niche content and it will still be actively seeded.

With public trackers, there is less retention of seeders, even more so for less common content.

Public trackers often end up with tons of dead torrents with 0-1 seeders after a couple years pass.

And on a private tracker there is incentive to keep old torrents alive. On public there is none. Ppl grab and run.

I’ve never stressed over my ratio

Public trackers are great for when everything you’re looking for is common or freshly released/uploaded.

Ppl looking for niche content, it’s not gonna be on public trackers.

Also the main benefit of private vs Public is that you can find a 10-15 year old torrent of some niche content and it will still be actively seeded.

With public trackers, there is less retention of seeders, even more so for less common content.

Public trackers often end up with tons of dead torrents with 0-1 seeders after a couple years pass.

And on a private tracker there is incentive to keep old torrents alive. On public there is none. Ppl grab and run.

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I didn’t say anything about that and don’t disagree but private trackers definitely have less of it due to their content having more scrutiny and standards.

Nothing is perfect. My comment only strived to let people know about private trackers as I saw multiple people ask about it.

I’ve had mine set up since launch and it works great. got certain types of sites/browsing dedicated to certain containers, along with cookie autodelete (it respects containers so can have settings per container) to delete cookies unless i whitelist a site.

For those asking “private trackers what’s that?”

/r/trackers (on the bad site I know) has a lot of info

For those who may be interested in getting into private trackers, you should start with Myanonamouse.net in my opinion. They do an interview on the irc which is easy and you can join that way https://www.myanonamouse.net/inviteapp.php

It is a tracker for ebooks/audiobooks/comics that is easy to maintain a ratio on (via their generous bonus point system) as long as you are a decent seeder.

Once you’re on the site for a few months you can access the invite forum which can get you access to other private trackers. Think of it like a ladder.

Torrentleech (a general private tracker) occasionally has open signups throughout the year.

Invite only torrent sites.

Retention and availability of seeders is higher.

You have to seed each torrent for a certain period of time at minimum (usually a week or so) and maintain a good overall upload/download ratio total (1.0 +)