I do feel for those who were enjoying a peaceful place until us rabble turned up needing to go through the stages of grief.
I'm very grateful for it existing.
I've tried browsing with the app but the content I'm being fed seems to have different priorities to rif. The niche stuff that I really want to read appears to be being buried.
It's made it so much easier to just not give them any content myself as I decided to stop posting there.
I'm really looking forward to seeing where lemmy goes as it's attracting the kind of people I enjoy associating with. Reddit is headed in the opposite direction IMO.
I got to do some pretty cool things, I lived out of pos in worm hole space with a close nit group during the first year of them, I flew with Rooks and Kings and Pandemic Legion.
But I wish I stopped then. I came back a few years later and that was so depressing.
Yes, to communicate at least one peer needs to be port forwarded.
If you don't have port forwarding and the seeder doesn't then you won't see them.
A lot of casual torrent users won't know about this so it's a common issue on public trackers.
Bandwidth to storage is going to become more and more important so I'm not keen on that.
I've been wondering the same thing and I'm looking forward to having my questions answered.
Corporations shouldn't get sole control of the benefits of the records of public discourse, those should be freely available to everyone.