I've been wanting to get into torrenting for a while, particularly contributing to private trackers related to music (and to a lesser extent retro games, though I don't have much original stuff to put there as it's harder to find rare games than rare music). FMHY recommends RiseUp if I must get a free VPN while I'm working on my financial situation, though I'm not sure whether it's been tested in court. What are my options, if any?

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tribler or i2p.

Edit: there are also non-bittorrent p2p networks out there like Retroshare, but I haven't used them, so don't know how useful they are.

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What are the adoption rates of those compared to a standard private tracker?

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Dunno, I haven't used private trackers in 10 years. You can add any magnet link to Tribler and it will go through exit nodes to hide your IP, kind of like Tor does for browsing clearnet. I haven't used i2p in a while either; back then, I used the Postman tracker, and don't know if that's still what most people do or not. I personally just use a paid VPN, because there really isn't a good way to set Tribbler up with an *arr stack.