I’m on MAM + other private trackers. MAM isn’t particularly strict on rules, and it’s ridiculously easy to have a positive ratio there what with all the freebies.

Private trackers are designed to make sure there’s always plenty of seeders. They mostly do that by enforcing that people maintain a certain ratio - i.e. don’t just hit and run. (There’s other advantages like that you can request re-seeds and the system will message previous seeders but that’s besides the point) You can’t force people to maintain ratio if it’s easy to game the system - that’s why there are these rules about IP addresses.

Many torrent clients are broken, or just lie about their upload stats. Those clients are banned, as are other that are broken in ways that cause others problems. Phones are a terrible source to download from - signal issues, limiting battery usage, etc. They just waste download slots that could be used for real clients on real connections.

Where is all the freedom on that shit?

Are you serious? You’re getting this stuff completely for free and you’re whining that there’s a few house rules. Entitled, much?

Oh yeah, Apri Fool’s Day. I thought you just meant it was a bad bug.

Ah ok, fair enough. I did read the article, but I didn’t realise that was what you were talking about - perhaps quoting the bit you’re responding to would stop me and others being confused.

Which comments are you talking about? There’s one comment that’s deleted by a mod, and mostly everyone else is talking about Germany.

I’ve even gone to your instance to see what you see, and seems like you’re complaining about something that’s not present.

You’re being downvoted for your strawman framing. Recognising that Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza (and farther, now) are unethical and illegal is absolutely not the same as calling for another Jewish genocide. Being pro-Palestine does not mean you’re calling for the destruction of Israel or the murder of Jews.

There seems to be a fairly successful effort to frame any opposition of Israel’s actions as antisemitic, which is a disgraceful attempt to use the suffering of Jewish ancestors as a shield against criticism today.

I’m out of the loop here, what’s this about?