You think not having total control of an organization means he’s free of blame

I don’t, that’s something you made up about me in your head. I think that YouTube’s business execs would always lead it to where we are now.

He warped what many young people belief they can become today and that belief is what ushered in a world of influencers chasing the all mighty dollar

He made gameplay videos. I think that’s the most benign form of “influencing” there can be. I think there are much more damaging channels that had way more sway in shaping this new generation.

Again, I’m not saying he’s a saint but I do think he’s ultimately insignificant when looking at the causes of and reasoning behind youtube’s enshittification. And I don’t think he would ever go a different direction, just doesn’t seem like the type.

you think he has influence over youtube’s business model decisions?

Say that to the original comment I’m just trying to make it more relatable to the nerds among us lol

A more accurate meme would be “I got this patch for being somewhat racist and fitting a particular psychological template” (pretend they are seals)

But also there are different patches you get for going into battle, at least over here, US might be different.

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

thanks for correcting, ig they didn’t update the wiki page

rutracker has rules that you have to have a 0.3 ratio at least, idk if they can do anything if you don’t have an account or if that’s enforced at all, my ratio’s too good to know

edit: no longer the case as pointed out below

Proud to live in a place that doesn’t care and also proud of my ISP for posting articles on how to torrent stuff on their main website lol

you will get booted off of most private trackers lol (and some public ones)

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/torrent 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.

I’m trying to convert some of my (alarmingly) slightly younger friends to torrent trackers. So far so good

edit: and tbf slightly older people are almost as bad about streaming in my experience, so it affects everyone