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maybe i still don't understand the exact mentality of the community (since I more use it as an aggregator rather than engaging with the community since in the p
by ozzmotik 8y ago
maybe i still don't understand the exact mentality of the community (since I more use it as an aggregator rather than engaging with the community since in the past ive gotten shadowbanned etc) and as such, i don't see what about this specific post makes it not front page material? it's a tech thing and while it's been made clear it's definitely nothing special in terms of alternatives being available, to me it still seems interesting to me and beyond that it also has created an interesting community engagement around it analyzing the value of it as well as the value of privacy when doing, ahem, questionable things.
the only reason I can think it might not be good material for such is the common perception that torrents exist basically solely to facilitate actions of a criminal nature, namely piracy, and while I agree that's a fair assessment, it's always been sort of a doubleface thing with torrents. they have plenty of valid and legitimate uses, obviously, it's just that piracy is a specific configuration of one of those uses, but it goes without saying that you can't really claim "become a pirate today easy!" as one of the features it provides ;)