What else should I help seed?

At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping. Have you checked your settings that you aren’t limiting your upload speeds?

Edit: people seem to be offended by this comment, so let me clarify by what I meant with “are you really helping”.

Torrent clients default to a fixed number of peers they download from. If you end up with only 16kb/s connections, you are being limited by those seeders in how fast you can download.

Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection and are downloading full blast.

I hope that clarifies my statement.

I'd rather have a 16kb/s seeder than a dead torrent
- For real. I’m slowly downloading a documentary from one person right now, it’s been a few weeks and it’ll be a few more, but I thank them for it
- The torrents include the normal http download URLs and fetch from them too. Official torrents never die.
At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping

That's a rather toxic mentality to have. Any amount of help is always appreciated.
- Asking someone to check their settings is a toxic mentality?
Torrent clients are usually smart enough to decide what the best seeders are to get the best possible availability and throughput.

OP seeding at 16 KB/s to some peers might also just mean that the leecher's bandwidth is mostly saturated by other peers so they don't need that much bandwidth from OP.
You'd be surprised to know that a 500GB hard drive can be theoretically copied in 1 year with a 16kb/s transfer.
Don’t most clients switch to seeders that deliver faster? Over time, I mean?
Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection

Gigabit internet connection gang rise up!
This feels like you don't really understand how the BitTorrent protocol works at all. When you watch Netflix, or download proprietary software (for example Steam) you are connected through a CDN to the geographically closest node. That's one of the main reasons it can be so fast.

However, torrent files aren't distributed by geographic region, the pool of peers is spread out across the globe. So if someone is on the other side of the earth, your upload speed to them is going to be quite small.

You're suggesting OP stop seeding because those seeders will be able to download faster, but we literally see just a snapshot. There could be leechers local to OP that come online and have a close, fast seed.

I'm generally seeding at 50-100kB/s, and when I check those connections they're almost always overseas (qBittorrent resolves the IPs and adds country flags). However, when another Aussie (or a Kiwi, sometimes Indonesians too) leecher connects, it'll often blow past my (ISPs) 50Mbps upload cap to 160-200Mbps or 20-25MB/s. Are you saying I shouldn't seed because that way an American or European will be able to download faster? Even though it's been pointed out to you that it doesn't even work that way. The BitTorrent protocol was designed from the start to mitigate this by prioritisation of peers on the clientside.

I can't believe such a toxic and inaccurate comment has this many upvotes.
- You're suggesting OP stop seeding because those seeders will be able to download faster, but we literally see just a snapshot.
  
  I suggested that OP check their settings.
  
  Are you saying I shouldn't seed because that way an American or European will be able to download faster?
  
  Again, that’s not what I am saying at all. Stop putting words in my mouth.
  
  I can't believe such a toxic and inaccurate comment has this many upvotes.
  
  If you’re looking for a toxic comment, look at your own where you are wilfully misrepresenting my argument, make wild assumptions and then attack those. That's textbook definition of toxic behavior.

Not FOSS, but a library/archive: https://annas-archive.org/torrents

Popular Linux ISOs are usually mirrored across a lot of mirrors (duh), so availability is already very good.

You can take a look here: https://fosstorrents.com/

Be sure to check the checksum after downloading and check if the release is somehow up to date. They only list raspberry pi os images older than a year

new House of the Dragon episodes

Based

EndeavourOS

Added

OpenStreetMap: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

Nice one!

300TBs of zip bombs

Always put it in a new dir after download

The Rotating Food Gifs Collection 1-5

Do you have a link to this torrent? I am very interested.

Wikipedia torrents from kiwix

You're not seeding properly, check your upload settings or try qBittorrent.

OP has acceptable seed ratio on the files near the bottom.
- I'm guessing these are all just very recent.

Anna's Archive can always use help

Is it legal? There may be alternatives with plausible deniability.
- Don't know, I'm not up on copyright law.

oh yeah torrenting them linux isos

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Does anybody download iso's via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents.. Especially for an image..

You grab the .torrent file from the source website (Mint, in this case) and it's safe
- Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn't take long..
Verifiying the checksum of an iso takes 30 seconds... You don't need to trust anyone
- I don't think that is even necessary. If you download the .torrent file from a trusted source it will already contain a secure hash of the final file. Also every piece you receive also comes with a hash that can also be verified through the .torrent file. If you don't trust the source enough to provide a valid .torrent, I don't see how downloading the image directly from them makes any difference. Read more: Official BitTorrent BEP BitTorrent V2 and SHA-256
- Well you do need to trust the checksum provided. That is the one you are checking against. Better would be a signature from a key you trust.
  
  In the end a modern torrent is just a hash.
- Checksum doesn't verify authenticity. You need to verify the signature
- Been on Linux 6 years, never done it. Extra steps
I prefer to download isos via torrents. You can easily check the checksum and signature once it's downloaded. And you're getting the torrent/magnet link/etc from the source so it's not some random torrent from piratebay or something lmao
- Why not direct download from website?