I guess the biggest expense is the hard-drive that needs to keep spinning and powered. I could create a new thread asking about torrent hosting on SSDs vs hard-drives. The constant (random) read operations should break hard-drive after some years?

That would be a horror-story for me, electricity prices are high and the downloading computer should run for 24/7, with a spinning hard-drive.

20 minutes a day

Wow did he have some automation that restarted his computer daily? Amazing that the torrent finished for you!

I also have one that is sitting 50% and it has been sitting there for days. I think people should be honest about torrenting, its obvious. The experience can be hit and miss, some seeders have very slow connection, and break all the time (intentionally)?

Auto-Moderation can be configured wrong.

The evil of the google-reddit hybrid mix knows no bounds. The site turned toxic.

why did you get shadow-banned? Did you make any controversial statements?

there are many more forums on the internet on the fediverse. They could also just have joined facebook.

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This seems as problematic, since reddit will not exist as a place for organic conversation like this any longer but an over-moderated place.

is this a new hoop you have to jump across to be considered a valid user?

Thank you for your service of the fediverse. You can be proud of yourself. I could never do something like run such a big instance.

Thank your for your service to the lemmyverse.

What. The. Fuck. surpressed news subreddit is banned? It is over.

I still think shadow-banning and manipulation of the front-page is worse to be honest.

This sounds like a star wars reference. The old republic trailers?