I keep seeing in forums and sites like these that say it’s frowned upon to not seed torrents that you use/used. I saw a post on here or Reddit (I don’t remember) with a guy ecstatic that someone started seeding his download he had been trying to get done for months. I know seeding lets someone download something using your computer but how is it helpful if someone doesn’t have a site and/or isn’t “in-range” ?

If you can’t tell, I don’t know much about how torrenting works other than how to download something using one. I hope that you all can just explain or point me in the right direction because I would like to support the community.

  • leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    better to keep track of a ton of torrents and seed the ones that go completely dead

    • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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      9 hours ago

      This is a much more involved method than just seeding everything you download to at least a 1.0 ratio, but if you’re extremely resource-limited, then sure