• sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Is this because they don’t know how to torrent? Or did the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads get into the water supply?

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      1 day ago

      Torrenting isn’t difficult but it’s also not very user friendly.

      I don’t really know what a magnet link is, I just know it’s what I want. There’s also a bunch of stats and settings in my torrenting app that I don’t understand but apparently it’s ok to just ignore them. I’m fine with that, but that level of confusion is very off-putting to most people.

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        10 hours ago

        I know people who have some app, I forget its name, on their smart television which is very accessible. It looks like a regular streaming service dashboard. Torrenting doesn’t have to be difficult and technical - but I wouldn’t have seen this if I didn’t go to that friend’s place.

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        19 hours ago

        I think anyone comfortable with managing files on a computer would be fine with torrents. Especially anything like qbitorrent which has integrated search. But the majority are ipad kinda users.