When you torrent you can only connect to peers that have open ports, if your ports are closed. Which means it makes it a lot harder to upload if you rely on private trackers and maintaining a good ratio. One can still download and upload, but for especially older torrents it has a good chance to affect your speeds and ability to download.

This is to be honest a huge barrier for me.

If Mullvad only allowed port forwarding…

I ran Qwant by Alibaba locally, and these censorship constraints were still included there. Is it not the same with DeepSeek?

I wish PeerTube was a reasonable alternative to YouTube but I have a hard time imagining it will ever be.

I try to not get swept up in “correlation equals causation” and conspiracies, but many of these timings seem really really sus

Very interesting, thanks for sharing