I often look for older or niche content, and even for that I still often have plenty of takers on public trackers. That my machine is port forwarded might have something to do with it. I'd say I have a "medium" amount of disk space and only stop seeding when I delete the files, but sometimes I limit the upload rate to keep some for other activities.

Depending on the content, 10 or 20 comes quick

Software could have trojans. But why not music?

Thanks! For anyone curious, the links to academictorrents version of the Reddit archives are available on /r/datahoarder and probably their lemmy.ml instance too.

Pushshift is down now? Is there a data hoarder who has a backup of all the historical Reddit data that we can seed?

Understandable, that sounds like a major pain. Hopefully the anti-spam does not impact reputable anonymous users, but I can only imagine the trouble caused by the influx of spam.

Proton is a good service, but their years of reluctance to include more anonymous payment methods such as Monero and the inability to register an account from an anonymous IP address without a phone number makes me question the relative benefit of using them as a VPN.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW3JbA6mq/