The only people in the chat seem to be the most racist, homophobic, sexist scumbags. It’s like walking into a 4chan convention… is that you guys? Why is it as soon as anonymity is there, the fucking assholes come out?
If this is the general spirit of piracy, I don’t know if I’m interested
i don’t go into the chat rooms, but i get about one dm a week from some rando or another who’s downloaded something from me thanking me for having whatever shit from 30 years ago they haven’t heard in forever, it’s honestly been a pretty positive experience overall for me.
like this lad last night
I always thank folks for obscure shit, and then add them to my friends list, open up my whole media library to them, and put them on a priority download list in exchange.
I generally only share music because I have slow upload speeds but I make exceptions for people I am grabbing media from
Did that a few times as well.
Hope it feels rewarding :)
My philosophy is that slsk is for the downloads, not the conversation.
Don’t go in the chatrooms except for private ones is my rule for soulseek for exactly this reason.
If you ignore the chatrooms, you should still be able to use it effectively.
Lots of crossover between 4chan and the general piracy community. First place I actually heard about soulseek was on the 4chan music board. I don’t really go there anymore. So yeah, its 4channers thinking they’re in good company.
Yeah, I recently used Soulseek for the first time and it’s been great but those chat rooms are shit. Honestly though I’m not using it for chat so after I checked it out and made the same discovery you did, I decided there was nothing to gain there anyway.
Piracy in general is a pretty mixed bag but I don’t think those chatrooms represent the community at large. Usually the worst thing people in this community do is just refuse to be helpful. And there are a lot of very generous people who keep this whole thing going.
Yeah I would just stay clear of the chat. There’s plenty of normal people on the network, it’s just they don’t use the chat either. I’ve met some cool folks through DM’s though.
My problem with Soulseek is that it only really has music. That’s it. I’m more interested in stuff for retro game systems. Not just the stuff that’s listed in No-Intro or some GoodSet, you can find those anywhere. I’m trying to find a site that has stuff that isn’t just the same sets you see everywhere. But I can’t find one.
Welcome to chatrooms, they were always like this its just a lost phenomenon to most people especially those that didn’t grow up with them. Ignore and move on is pretty standard practice, I’m on slskd and I’ve only gotten DMs not sure if it even has the chat enabled by default
