glad someone else is feeling this. it’s really strange and depressing seeing so many good things collapse within the year. and we’re getting no wins whatsoever
Well, I count finding Lemmy as an absolute win
Federated piracy isn’t just next, I’d argue it’s almost the only solution.
Why, what happened? Did some big piracy site get shut down?
Even within a month
Honestly I’m somewhere between “average person” and “ultra nerd” so the fact that I am finally too fed up with reddit and leaving for mastodon and lemmy makes me think more people will do likewise. I call that a win.
The “enshitification” of the web recently feels almost coordinated. Factually; it is not coordinated; it’s just bad luck.
Still stinks though. Society still has not learned that allowing capitalism to run rampantly unchecked is generally causing these issues.
I dunno. Reddit has been pretty toxic ever since 2016. Browsing Lemmy instead is undoubtedly good for my blood pressure.
What was Mullvad port forwarding about?
They deleted the feature because of pedos 🤮
Here’s a link, if anyone wanted to read more: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
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Do you know a not sus VPN that supports p2p torrenting? I 🏴☠️ tens of games a month and recently our fascist government just passed a draconian anti piracy law, what VPN should I look to?
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Would you move to usenet to no longer use torrents?
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What about Mullvad?
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Can you explain a bit more, if you don’t mind? From what I’ve read not being able to port forward can decrease the number of connections you can make while torrenting (i.e. slower down-/upload), but I don’t see why this would cause IP leaks assuming your torrent client is configured to only use VPN connections. I’ve never used it personally. Not trying to be obtuse or anything, I’m just a bit confused and very sceptical in terms of alternatives because I’m not very serious in terms of torrenting and would be hesitant to change my trust.
In the past I have used BtGuard.
You are better off getting a seedbox from some place in Europe than trying to deal with slow vpn speeds.
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Purge? Is this about the porn ban, or something else?
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Oh man that sucks.
Me over here trying to figure out how to get i2p running in qbittorrent so I don’t need a VPN anymore.
Thats not exactly how that works. You can only connect to people seeding on i2p network. You can’t just connect to clearnet seeders from i2p
Its good that qbitt added support for it but torrenting over i2p is not new, i2psnark is built into java version and biglybt has supported i2p for years. The issue is that most seeders dont cross-seed.
Also if the guide on reddit is still going to need a vpn. Look at step 26, you are uploading to clearnet.
In order to not use a vpn you need to only connect via i2p and you are then severely limited in your use.
I would suggest just grabbing the info hash of a clearnet torrent and pasting it into i2psnark to see if it exists on i2p. If it does great! And seed that shit (you won’t need a vpn to do that) but i2p will definitely not completely replace clearnet torrenting
I didn’t want to connect to clearnet folks. I2P only mode in qbittorrent. I just prefer qbittorrent as opposed to i2psnark. Obviously the issue is adoption and availability of torrents on i2p. I’ll continue to seed new stuff on there very often though. Maybe even see if I can get RSS setup on qbittorrent for i2p as well for automatic downloading/seeding.
I see. Hopefully this drives adoption
That’s possible?
Yes it is! I did manage to figure it out. There is a guide that was posted on reddit. /r/i2p look for the recent qbittorrent thread there. The download for the guide is a torrent too.
I didn’t realise RARBG had shut down. Such a shame, that was a great site for torrents.
It has been hard week fer us salty sea dogs
haha
