That’s why I’m here

That was the joke

Reported, rule 5

I have not been paying attention to threads and so I gave it a quick google. It seems that threads is doing just fine, with 130 million monthly users now.

Where should I be looking for the grisly stats?

Not many. I prefer smaller trackers though. If you see a lot of popular torrents on larger trackers, you’ll have a bunch of concurrent active seeds.

If you permaseed you don’t need to know individual tracker seeing requirements.

Give an alternative a go, see if you have better luck. There's adguard home, blocky, and Technitium DNS for you to consider.

Alternatively, the window trick should work.

Just waiting patiently for boost.

It’s certainly a great read and is worthwhile, however I fundamentally disagree with the base premise that the goal of a federated system is to be uniformly distributed.

Why should an instance focused on a niche topic have the same representation as a general instance? Why should either have the same representation as one with abhorrent content?

Choosing your instance is effectively a statement that you agree with the mission of the particular instance. The number of low user instances demonstrates that there are a great number of people that share the author’s vision of federation.

This isn’t a popular opinion on the fediverse right now, but you have nothing to be ashamed of for wanting to try threads out.

Do you have ssh access running on local network? If so, all you have to do is forward the port. I’d recommend exposing a non-standard port, also using keys rather than password.

If you don’t have your sshd running yet, it sounds like you need to read some guides to get a foundation, then come back with specific questions.

The best way to troubleshoot your setup is to test each bit by bit individually until you figure out where it’s gone wrong.

Try your qbit container without glutun. Can you download and seed a Linux iso from the same directory your current seeds are? If not, you’re probably looking at a permissions issue.

Next test your glutun container. Can you ping the tracker from the container? If not, your VPN isn’t set up correctly.

Lastly try qbit via glutun, if it doesn’t work it’s a port forwarding issue.

Good luck!