Like fuck me but I was on the fence until I saw they had step by step guides for literally everything. How dare you accuse me of being a geriatric incompetent apple fan, now shut up and take my money.

AND THEIR GUIDES ARE DYNAMIC: “look for server input box on the FTP client. Here is your specific server ip that you’ll want to put in”

Share your direct ip address with strangers and hope they all pinky promised the private tracker that they are real pirates /s

https://whatbox.ca/ has been decent for me so far.

They have wiki guides for everything.

Retroshare seems like a p2p Facebook rather than a file-sharing network

It suffers from the (need to be a nerd) barrier. Getting people off Facebook requires the minimum amount of friction possible.

If we’re talking friends or family then build and host a mastodon or matrix server. Call it “Tommy’s Bistro” friends/family only. Even with all of this effort you’re competing against a facebook setting to keep a post restricted to friends/family only.

I’ve never understood private trackers. I have yet to encounter a situation where I can’t locate a file on a public tracker.

And a private tracker doesn’t allow for VPNs? Sounds like an industry honeypot.