cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/909097

Almost always my movies even though i have tons of music, and always the most obscure shit. I have Disney movies and Breaking Bad, but people go for the auteur french sci-fi animated features.

Soulseek gives me much the same joy of sharing as torrent does, perhaps more so because it’s one-on-one with a username instead of an IP.

It’s very easy to contribute to Soulseek as opposed to torrent, you just mark your shared folders. I think there’s probably more content as a result, at the cost of the inefficiency of multiple people offering the same thing. Which i’m not sure matters.

I don’t know if the rooms are really worth it. You only get the messages starting when you logged in, so you can’t catch up to what happened before; this problem is particularly relevant because most rooms are dead; those that aren’t dead consist of a lot of vicious arguments; and it’s live chat anyway, never my favorite format for discussion.

I prefer Soulseek to eMule just because it works, but i also found it simpler.

Unfortunately my VPN doesn’t play well with Soulseek, apparently it doesn’t support port forwarding? I’m not sure how to fix this. It may in fact have been a problem when torrenting too the whole time and i didn’t notice.

Overall i really enjoy Soulseek and will probably always have it in the background, it’s pretty great!

  • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh wow, I remember using Soulseek like 20 years ago. Even back then, it was like the thinking-man’s KaZaa lol. I’m kind of surprised it still exists.

    I imagine the people there are getting obscure stuff, because they can probably find Breaking Bad and Disney movies pretty much anywhere. Reminds me a little of What.CD and how amazing that site was for rare and hard to find stuff. RIP.

  • Willer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Soulseek is officially to be used on obscure shit. because otherwise it would be easy snack for lawyers :D

  • toxictenement@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I actually got soulseek working through a VPN properly for the first time a few days ago. First thing I try to download, I find out the user has geo-IP banning, and the dude called me an asshole for trying to find a working server to download from, then permabanning me from his shares. So even if you do get it working through a vpn, be careful.

    • thawed_caveman@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      One guy had geo-IP banning because they believe everyone who is from these coutnries list is an idiot who doesn’t know how to use Soulseek.

      You think they told me that? No, they messaged me to tell me everyone from [insert country] was poor and ignorant, refused to explain, acted like it was obvious and i was stupid for not already knowing, judged me for using public torrent trackers; and when i called them arrogant, they said (this is almost a direct quote) “i’m not arrogant, i’m just better than you”.

      In their defense, i was sharing the Incomplete folder.

  • helpimnotdrowning@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I always like going through my uploaded tab to peek at what people are downloading.

    It’s usually music, but sometimes I’ll see someone download some random obscure youtube archive from a dead or retired channel and I’ll be glad to have served that for them.