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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?
99% of internet users don't know what a torrent is.
Which is probably a good thing for torrent users
torrent is useless, who wants to connect to a million people who are only sharing the arch iso?
Swim sideways to not get caught in a torrent.
Someone who isn’t me sideways
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.
And I guess you get into torrents because you don't know what usenet is.
Both in use.
Why be exclusive with it if you can get the best of both worlds
Or don’t want to have to pay for Usenet access.
Typically, people stay on the torrents because they are free, while all usenet costs money. Which is the point. Maybe genz can't even afford Usenet access.