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by anoncake 2587 days ago
If you make that the default, almost all people will continue to seed unless they never use the software again.
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There is a fundamental assumption underlying this topic, are the user expected to be on desktop or mobile (including many laptops)? If the objective is to provide high bandwidth then mobile users might see a significant increase in battery and disk usage.

not saying it would not work, I actually like the idea of more peer to peer networking. But as the market is clearly focused on low consumption user devices with commonly little drive capacity seeding would be a damage to UX.

Phones at least have smaller screens and need lower resolutions. But that doesn't really solve the problem.