The problem is this means you have to download whatever the newest freeleech torrent is ASAP and seed it as much as you can, rather than downloading content you want right away and seeding it. If there's 500 seeds and 1 leech, you aren't getting much upload buffer.

I've never actually broken 1.0 on a torrent on TL because it's impossible, there are too many seeds and nobody actually wants to download much of the crap lol. Freeleech is the only thing making decent ratios possible for plebs without seedboxes and automation.

[–] elghoto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter if you get 1.0 ratio on FL downloads. Anything counts towards your upload buffer. By auto downloading FLs I've made a buffer of about 2TB since I joined on Christmas.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but you still have to be super aggressive about it, an FL torrent over an hour old is completely useless in my experience and you shouldn't download it unless you actually want the contents. Plus you still have to keep your FL torrents running for 10 days, but you get all the uploading done in the first few hours, so the rest of the time is a completely useless waste of disk space.

Personally I just reached >5.0, but I've only downloaded two torrents I actually wanted, the rest have been whatever FL bs I could get my hands on early enough to get some uploading in lol