• Mike@lemm.ee
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    23 hours ago

    Who still uses search engines to find torrent, though?

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      21 hours ago

      It’s been common ever since magnet links were created, since you can post a magnet link anywhere (even in a plain text file) rather than having to upload a .torrent file somewhere like in the old days.

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      21 hours ago

      Sites periodically get taken down or rendered less than useful. Especially for live streaming.

      Yandex was invaluable when I was looking for Olympics streams, for instance. Also really depends on which communities are hosting to which torrent sites. I found nyaa.si off Yandex, because I couldn’t find the anime I was looking for on 1337x.to.