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How to seed properly and safely? [India]
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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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Seeding is safe when you aren't using P2P discovery functions. If it is a private tracker, and everything is encrypted, you'll never have any issues. Stay away from public torrents that aren't explicitly controlled by a tracker unless it's freely available data (like a Linux distro).
edit: didn't downvote you. btw, is it true that you can see who downvoted you on lemmy? I don't want to but yeah idk seems somewhat interesting.
I am sorry, you would have to explain this to me :(
Also, what do you mean by private tracker, I create a torrent which has encrypted files and then I share that torrent & encryption keys with my friend. That kinda torrent?
Out of the box no, but if you host a Lemmy server you can check in the SQL database who downvoted what, both locally and all posts that were synced using ActivityPub.
Apparently all that data is included in the ActivityPub protocol. On Kbin, every post has an Activity button that shows every user (even those on other instances) that upvoted/downvoted/saved that post. So if a Lemmy post happens to federate to Kbin, all that info can be seen publicly by anyone.