Brickfrog

So, I used to have my own VPS

Not sure if this is a requirement for you but if you are used to using your own VPS then you might be used to have root / SSH access. When browsing seedbox services you may want to double-check if their plan(s) offer that.

That’s a tough one, if these are public torrents you may be stuck having to search for the torrents one-by-one and hope you can find their associated .torrent files to re-seed the torrents.

You do need a .torrent file, or bare minimum a magnet link to an active/non-dead swarm, to be able to re-seed torrents with existing data. Magnet links without any current peers on them are a bit useless for this task unfortunately.

If these torrents are from private trackers you can check the private tracker website(s), many of them have a feature to allow you to re-download all the .torrent files you previously downloaded from the tracker.

I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to “the highest bidder”

Debrid services do collect data, the recent RealDebrid drama seems relevant since this app is basically for use with those services

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32433831

It actually seems more private to self host Jellyfin to stream/playback already downloaded media files but that’s just my own interpretation.

Definitely I could see this being useful for discussing things that would traditionally be censored on other more centralized or semi-decentralized platforms (piracy, anti-authoritarian discussions in an oppressive country, etc).

IPFS by default isn’t set up to work around censorship or anything of the sort. Protocol Labs (creator/maintainer of IPFS and Filecoin) have always honored copyright takedowns, etc. on their own infrastructure and have done a fair amount of work on content blocking within the default IPFS clients and such.

e.g. https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-content-blocking-for-the-ipfs-stack

In its early days IPFS was being pushed as a anti-censorship tool, obviously blocklists/denylists is the opposite of that. But it’s all a moot point, you’re linking to a discussion from 2015. AFAIK denylists were already implemented e.g. https://blog.ipfs.tech/2023-content-blocking-for-the-ipfs-stack/

Officially it should work, but I couldn’t get any peers.

Officially it won’t work. It’s impossible for qBittorrent to support DHT via I2P when Libtorrent itself does not support it. qBittorrent along with many other torrent clients are based on Libtorrent.

https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/7408

qBittorrent works well enough as long as you’re adding I2P trackers to public torrents you want to find I2P peers with. It’s not great but for now that may be the best solution aside from using I2PSnark (which like you said isn’t that great).

That’s some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit’s default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.

The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod’s PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.