cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/memes/p/930951/the-next-de-generation
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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I have never been good about seeding because my old laptop sucked and I rarely torrent stuff and dont really underestand what the ettiquite is or what seeding actually entails. I always kinda worried it'd keep my computer awake all the time and like use battery, or consume computational resources while I'm trying to use it
Anyone wanna give me the lowdown on seeding, etiquette, and what to expect? I'd like to be better about it, but I don't have anyone to really learn this stuff from 😅
Seeding uses your drive (reads it so long as it's seeding to someone), your bandwidth (obviously), and a negligible amount of power/computational resources.
If you have a tracker you trust you could start by reading their guides. Like my most used public tracker tells you to have a ratio of 0.3, meaning for every part downloaded you seed 0.3 back to the people. I usually stay for at least 1-1.2 until I turn my pc off. If you want to be helpful you could also get some "rare" stuff to seed, same tracker classifies it as having fewer than 5 others seeding it.
In general, "don't hit and run" holds true, if you can seed for just an hour after you've downloaded your stuff, do it. When it comes to torrenting, we are all we got.
That is really helpful, thank you so much!
What is a tracker? 😅 I'm super ignorant about this stuff lol
Either a website hosting and cataloguing torrent files (or magnet links, doesn't matter), or a special server that doesn't host anything and just helps communicate the peers (people seeding and leeching). Both are commonly called that
edit: i meant the first one in my previous comment btw
I've seeded hella stuff just by forgetting to turn off my torrent program.