Hiya,
Working on completely replacing Spotify completely. Soulseek has popped up a few times here and there among forums and here on lemmy, so I thought I’d give that a go. I’ve started with getting Nicotine+ client and seems to be working fine. However, what does the traffic look like when downloading/uploading things over the Soulseek network? I read its peer-to-peer network, but does that mean I don’t need a VPN? I’m also told to open a port on my router, I’m assuming this is so that I can share my own library with the rest of the network, but how safe is this?
If anyone could help my clarify this I’d greatly appreciate it!
Edit: Just found this very promising project too! https://github.com/slskd/slskd
Not sure why people are saying port forwarding is required. I have no ports forwarded to slskd and people are downloading from me just fine.
Isn’t the purpose of peer to peer to for people to connect to each other? If your port isn’t open then how do they connect to you?