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
why would you use soulseek for chat
Every unmoderated internet space is destined to look like that. Just use it for music sharing and you won’t even know the chat is there.
Correct. Reason being:
- bigoted user keeps getting banned everywhere he goes
- needs somewhere to express his hateful opinions
- unmoderated chatroom
My philosophy is that slsk is for the downloads, not the conversation.
For the record, I have not noticed this as “piracy in general”, no. Malware, dubious claims, dubious quality, dubious people, “extra information” that’s undesirable? Sure, they all happen, that’s part of the whole “get shit for free” deal. People are dipshits and I get how that’s really annoying. But… aren’t you in it for the free shit? Do you need to engage with the community much?
Racist, sexist, homophobic (etc. - god knows it’s a long enough list) are generally “edgy” and therefore automatically hysterically funny to a bunch of people - teenagers and others who might be well represented in piracy for whatever reason. Hell, some of that shit is funny even if you ethically oppose it 100%.
You don’t need to participate, agree or approve, just get what you came for and leave the edgelords to their edgelording.
That’s honestly super fair. I haven’t really participated in piracy since my teenage days, and back then i might have found it funny as well.
It probably really comes down to the fact that teenagers have no money.
17:40:13 [weezzee] IM HAXOR 😎️ 17:44:36 [weezzee] NOW ITS TIME TO WATCH THE MASK ON REPEAT AND MEMORIZE ALL THE LINES SO I CAN BECOME MORE LIKE THE MASK IN MY DAY TO DAY LIFE
I ethically oppose this
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.
It’s the internet. Youre going to run into people you don’t like online. If you want to live in a coca cola commercial I hear there’s a whole strip mall of multi billion dollar corporate websites you can use, stick to those.
Frankly I’ve grown tired of that attitude towards online things, that toxic and hateful behavior should just be something thats expected on the internet. Granted, I’ve done my time in places like 4chan and am completely able to tune it out. I shouldn’t have to bathe myself in that toxic environment just to be able to participate in an online space though. This blase attitude from the neutral online that “its the internet, what did you expect” is precisely what allows fascist and xenophobic communities to grow and thrive unchallenged. I’m just tired of the bullshit. So tired.
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.
You’ve encountered Gabriel’s Greater Internet Dickwad Phenomenon - basically, if you take an average person and remove accountability for their actions, a significant subset of them will turn out to be total dickwads. Much like how lactic acid bacteria will render their environment acidic so that other bacteria cannot thrive, it takes a shockingly small percentage of total dickwads to render an environment so toxic to regular people that the only people who thrive there are other dickwads.
The fact is that the majority of the community isn’t like that, but because we exist at the fringes due to the semilegitimate nature of piracy there often isn’t a lot of effort to keeping the community decent. Just do what most of us do, download and move on.
Why don’t the majority talk over the dickwads if they outnumber them? Why does it only take a few to mess everything up?
Because why would I waste my time shouting at dickwads in some filthy corner of the internet, when I can just go to a space where they’re not welcome? It’s definitely better overall to stand up and fight but the fight never ends and it’s exhausting. I definitely understand anyone who just wouldn’t bother.
That’s true. sigh It’s just rather frustrating that it only takes a few to ruin things for so many…
It’s only ruined if you actually want to engage in the chat. Use it for what it’s for, and come get your community on Lemmy. Beehaw.org in particular is a smaller, more heavily moderated instance that might be the kind of space you’re looking for. I keep an account there and on lemm.ee specifically so I can choose how much “freedom” I’d like to be exposed to depending on how I feel.
I was referring to the Nicotine+ chat being ruined. I’m already on Beehaw, though it’s not really about piracy-related stuff. It’s nice though.
I’m not sure how much I’d even use Nicotine+, it doesn’t have a lot of what I’m looking for. Just music. I tend to look for retro game stuff. I have all the No-Intro sets for older systems so I don’t need stuff that’s in those (except the private entries). It’s hard to find stuff that isn’t just in any No-Intro, GoodTools, or TOSEC set, unfortunately. I might use it to share stuff. Maybe eMule as well? I don’t know. shrug
Touch grass.
