The primary issue (before eg.: CGNAT or port-opening issues) is it's become more and more often the case that I post-process what I download before use (rename / reencode music albums, reencode movies) so it makes little sense to keep the old files only for seeding. In theory a "seedbox" (those are the trendy thing this decade, right?) would help solve this, but I'm still rather new and have not found any FOSS, PII-free offerings in the market.

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly the situation I'm facing. Despite torrents being a popular choice, it just doesn't provide an easy way to manage your seeds.

Of course I have found some potential solutions. Seedbox is one of them. There's also the *arr suite, which is a more local solution that utilises hard links - but im not sure if it'll be effective if you want to reencode.

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[–] GuardYaGrill@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Maybe one day ProtonVPN will fix their port-forwarding for their configuration files, I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this and their support is oblivious that this function even exists.

For people wondering the Learn More link just tells you what port forwarding does.

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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that seedboxes are definitely worth it. Go for a seedbox if you can afford it

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And join private trackers, quality is better and you pretty much get seeds all the time.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

I have a great seeding record, but cant find any private trackers to join....

Where do i start?

i only re-started my torrenting activities in the last few years since the streaming landscape has become a hellscape

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[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 9 points 3 weeks ago

I love seeding.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

All my torrents seed for a bit but then remain in "queue" forever.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago

tragedy of the Commons, with external pressure to boot.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I can't seed even though I want to because my vpn

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry guys but I'm living out of a 500GB hard drive. Anything that I'm not using regularly gets purged.

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