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For me it's YIFY versions of older movies

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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

1 is my goal, though I think I might have reached 2 once. Because shitty ADSL 😭

My very grateful thanks to people who can afford to do more.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago

4741

One small old book that used to be hard to find in good quality. I've it seeding for years, and being so small and in risk of being lost I've never taken it down.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 55 minutes ago

Same lol, this is MIDV-120, Found this at 1 seed with 100 KiB/s upload speed, I think it's safe to say I single handedly revived this torrent.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

~50x

My policy is double my download, minimum. But I almost always hit much higher than that, my average is probably between 5-10x

All my torrents are public sites, and I only torrent pretty common stuff, so I don't feel too bad about killing a torrent after a week or two. I figure 5-10x average on easy-to-find, mid quality media is plenty in the karmic sense lol.

As far as I am concerned, always give better than you get, even if that's 1.01 but try to aim higher.

Of course, if you're seeding a rare or otherwise hard to find piece of media, then you should keep it alive for longer. I am in the process of upgrading my torrent machine, and once that happens, I will be able to hold far more active torrents, and my average ratios will be significantly improved.

Happy sailing!

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago

Worst pirate ever, but also the best kind of person!

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I see a lot of older Linux distros in this thread, why do that many people download them?

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 12 hours ago

A lot of legacy stuff that's really expensive and time consuming to upgrade. If it ain't broken (and protected from the internet), don't fix it.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 9 points 13 hours ago

Geez. I seed until I upload twice what I downloaded. Am I a stingy bastard?

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Just checked, it's a Ubuntu ISO

1904.21

Picture of qBitTorrent app showing the torrents sorted by ratio, with Ubuntu live server iso in first place with 1904 ratio

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It is lovely to see so many people training their AIs

[–] xabadak@lemmings.world 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

are you seeding AI datasets?

[–] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 10 hours ago

Pirating to train AIs is legal^†^.

^†^ in some jurisdictions only; you may need to be a rich corporation for that to apply.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] elidoz@lemmy.ml 23 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I've had about 1000 ratio on linux mint xfce, version 22.0 iirc

[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm coming up on 10000 for linux mint that I started nearly 300 days ago. 2.7GiB download, 24.8TiB upload.

My next highest is GIMP 3.0 at a little over 400.

Yeah I was gonna say I think I have like a 2000 ratio for Ubuntu 24.04 desktop, server, and some 3rd one that I’ve been seeding since it came out.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What torrent client is in the screenshot?

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 18 hours ago

Tixati.

I use it mostly because it has a lot more options and flexibility, and also just because i'm already using it and it's a pain in the ass to switch

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

MacOS monte - 485
MacOS Ventura - 327
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing - 263
Monkey Island 1 - 243
ACE - 165
AmigaPower - 154
Weekly Famitsu 1993 Complete - 141

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I tend to stop torrents when they hit 1000, I feel like that's a "good enough" contribution on public stuff, except when I notice less than 100 seeders, then I tend to keep it going.

Top 58 I guess. Especially proud of the 800+ ratio on a 78 GB one (78*800≈61TB).

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 20 hours ago

I think I once had 20 seed ratio on the tv series Psych. Haven't seeded since my vpn got all wonky on me, I'll start again for sure.

[–] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago

I have one or two YIFY movies that I haven't been able to find on multiple private trackers (that usually cover all my needs) and the seed ratio is over 1,000 (since early 2021).

Public torrents of course get a lot of action (even relatively niche content).

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

"Trainwreck - Poop Cruise" is my current #1 ratio.

I usually delete after watching so this is just among recent downloads.