Apparently you know your way around there… can you ELI5 what soulseek exactly is? Is this based on torrenting? Is it comparable to what limewire was back in the day?
Stumbled across it and don’t know what makes this so charming for so many people
No, and that’s a good thing.
How should they make money? Services and Storage cost money. Period. That has to be paid by someone. Either be it the users, or some sketchy not-giving-a-shit-about-privacy-advertising company because hosters on the usenet have to sell your data to pay for the servers.
Easy as that.
And since usenet is used for a lot of piracy, i 100% DON’T want it to be financed by shit like this. I pay for it and i know i am safe.
Don’t forget. If a product is free - you are the product.
100% - i get 40MB/s on Usenet, something i could only dream about on torrents…also i am in germany, torrenting is quite risky here.
When i find something on usenet, it is there…period. I can get it. On torrents? Just because i found a magnet doesn’t mean there is anyone seeding it.