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!
Love me some soulseek and looking through everything people get from me.
In terms of rooms I don’t converse with anyone in them but I do always sit in the dubstep room purely because 90 percent of what I have is dubstep so I hope that people might see my name in the list and then explore my files allowing them to find some music they are interested in (hopefully)
I wouldn’t even think to look for movies on there unless maybe I couldn’t find what I wanted on any of the torrent sites so maybe that is what is happening, people come there as a last ditch attempt to find what they want?