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For me it's YIFY versions of older movies

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[–] TediousLength@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

My all time ratio is not that high (101.8), but I have seeded an average of 1.124 TiB per day for the last three years on with my home server. All my devices included, I average 1.7 TiB per day

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, which book?

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

I have no mouth and I must scream.

It was originally published as part of a book compilation, and it was kind of hard to find a file with just that story and without typos all over the place.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, my ratios skyrocketed when I finally got access to fiber. Went from struggling to hit 1.0, to easily hitting 150.0. My highest ratio is nearly 1000.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

I'm on VPN so my highest is like 6.

I'm got a 100Mbps upload but nobody wants it through a VPN. 😢

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago

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

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days 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 7 points 2 days 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.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

I feel so tiny next to some of the big numbers in here. My top ratio is 11.64x with 1.3TB up. But the current setup has only been up for two months.

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is lovely to see so many people training their AIs

[–] xabadak 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

are you seeding AI datasets?

[–] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 1 day 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 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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!

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have 2-3k ratios on Das Kapital by Marx and the manga version of Das Kapital. In fact all my highest ratios are some politcal classic ebooks with one comedy series mixed into it.

[–] elidoz@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What torrent client is in the screenshot?

[–] 0range@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days 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

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days 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.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days 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).

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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).

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

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