It followed in the footsteps of Napster and limewire as a P2P client, primarily for sharing music. Unlike its predecessors, it survived basically unchanged for the last decades, basically just flying under the radar.

I still recommend it, though I think Nicotine+ is a better client (its a different frontend for the same network). It's not necessarily better than torrenting, just different. It also has chatrooms which I used to quite enjoy as a youngster back in the early 2000s.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nicotine+ is a better client because it's more actively developed. The official Soulseek client hasn't had an update in 3 years.

[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

the Soulseek client actually gets updated, it's that the updates are not published on the homepage but on the forum

https://groups.google.com/g/soulseek-discussion/c/E69FDwm1puw/m/FGOazKBoAAAJ

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