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Yeah I can't wait to use these glasses to replace my glasses.

I find stuff I like via the algorithm very often. Subscriptions cover channels that I want to see every upload of, but that doesn't cover channels I don't yet know about or channels only have a percentage of videos interesting to me. I use the algorithm mainly for finding content that I wouldn't have discovered otherwise, and I can tell the algorithm knows to suggest me videos like that (low view/sub count videos show up for me way more than normal).

Comcast is the only option where I live. And yes, there are more strict rules in certain other regions like I think some European countries. Many people I've talked to have gotten isp letters just where I live though.

1. Always high quality content and easy as hell to find. Flacs for music, Blu-ray sourced movies/tv with high bitrate, etc. No sifting through torrents of questionable quality.

2. That's because good private trackers have torrent checkers, report systems, and staff/dedicated users making sure content is up to par in terms of quality and safety against malware.

3. They are filled with seed boxing users making all of your downloads very fast. On the flip side these users often cannabalize upload ratio for torrents so individuals on normal connections might have to rely on systems outside purely seeding to maintain a proper ratio. (This is exaggerated on places like r/trackers though, it's not hard at all imo.)

4. The request sections can get you pretty much anything that's reasonably obtainable if you out a bounty up. For me, I have niche tastes in music so that's been helpful more than a few times.

5. I never have to worry about my isp complaining about what I download. I've never received a complaint once, and I've never used a VPN.

Great client but unfortunately for those of us on private trackers it isn't going to be whitelisted on many of them, or at least the most prominent ones. At least that was the case last I checked, and I gave up on it after.

The way we used the service is different I guess. /r/all always had too much garbage for me to enjoy. I just subbed to whatever I was interested in and never had to worry about nonsense subreddits.

groups for every single damn anime in existence.

Subreddits for small niche interests is the thing I miss most from reddit and the only thing I return for now and then. Maybe I don't care for those singular anime, but I'm glad the people that do have/had it available to them.

Right now I can't watch twitch whole working so the only places to get a quick update on evo (what many consider to be the biggest fighting game tournament yearly, happening now) are reddit and twitter. Not great imo.

It's an unattainable ideal yes. But it's okay to lament the decline in behavior as a social web service grows. Perhaps as a reminder to everyone to try to be better.