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Your last comment must be about the “Outside seeding” section of the ratio guide?

I guess it depends on the individual’s attitude toward the entire idea of sharing. To me, I can improve my ratio on a private tracker while further benefitting the whole by continuing to seed what I download on the public tracker. If I’m already seeding the files for one tracker, why wouldn’t I just keep the other one active?

If the attitude is I will download this from the public tracker, stop the torrent immediately, and then seed for my ratio… That’s the kind of person a private tracker probably doesn’t want and maybe won’t last anyway.

Mostly music for me. 35ish years of CD purchases, modest vinyl collection. Bootlegs (though digital these days).

Some books, mostly just favorite authors/franchises.

I also have a decent enough GameCube collection.

While I can’t relate to the money aspect, I too am extremely conservative with potion use in games!

It was the best of times, it was the w… nope. Just the best.

Back in the olden times, before the WWW came along and the internet exploded, you’d fire up your modem and dial into other computers. Bulletin Board Systems.

They would typically host some local forums, files to download, private messaging, and some online games. Larger ones might have a chat room. As time went on, networked forums got popular. Mostly text interfaces, but ANSI graphics and menus were common.

It was really the best.

Setting one up to be accessible via telnet is a fun little project. Install a couple of doors (games) like Legend of the Red Dragon, Pimp Wars, Usurper and just have fun.

Down and South are not the same thing.

You could run a BBS! Synchronet and Enigma both have Docker images available.

It’s really the epitome of a pointless endeavor, but it also gives you an entirely new kind of system to learn, tinker with, and customize.

Agree. Sometimes I click on Reddit threads in my search results. I’ve had to use WhatsApp recently to stay in touch with my dad. I keep Meta accounts so that I can (very rarely) keep up with family.

None of them are things I use daily or post to (other than WhatsApp convo). The accounts have been pretty well dead for at least the last 3 years.

I host my own services, including a Mastodon instance. I talk up fediverse alternatives and FOSS apps…but I can’t even get my mom to understand that she doesn’t need to bring an SD card to Walmart to get photos. I’m certainly not going to push her to Signal or Matrix just to talk to me.

Whatsapp is a platform, not just a replacement messaging app. You can look someone up by phone of Facebook too, but that doesn’t mean you can choose how to message them or that they could receive a message without using the platform. Or maybe I’m not quite getting what you’re saying.