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How to seed properly and safely? [India] (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I heard that in some countries you can get fined for using torrents or seeding beyond a certain limit (Das Deutschlandlied intensifies). How to seed so that no idiot government would get hands on the fact that you are downloading torrents? I am pretty sure I can do this using Tails OS but what else? Is there a safe way to SEED TILL YOU BLEED?

It would have been nice if we (someone but not me) could have created a website where we could read a particular country's law and how to torrent safely from there.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Seeding is safe when you aren't using P2P discovery functions. If it is a private tracker, and everything is encrypted, you'll never have any issues. Stay away from public torrents that aren't explicitly controlled by a tracker unless it's freely available data (like a Linux distro).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Seeding is safe when you aren’t using P2P discovery functions.

edit: didn't downvote you. btw, is it true that you can see who downvoted you on lemmy? I don't want to but yeah idk seems somewhat interesting.

I am sorry, you would have to explain this to me :(

Also, what do you mean by private tracker, I create a torrent which has encrypted files and then I share that torrent & encryption keys with my friend. That kinda torrent?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

is it true that you can see who downvoted you on lemmy?

Out of the box no, but if you host a Lemmy server you can check in the SQL database who downvoted what, both locally and all posts that were synced using ActivityPub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Apparently all that data is included in the ActivityPub protocol. On Kbin, every post has an Activity button that shows every user (even those on other instances) that upvoted/downvoted/saved that post. So if a Lemmy post happens to federate to Kbin, all that info can be seen publicly by anyone.

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