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Should I be using a VPN for slsk?

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

I use one because I don't know who I'm connecting to or who's connecting to me.

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I did not use one for years with no problems but now I'm paranoid and use one since it is up 24/7 now.

[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

I dont use one, from memory its simply because there arent snitches but i cant fully remeber

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not needed but it doesn't hurt.

[–] hisao@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does hurt, your VPN should support proper port-forwarding for soulseek to work well. In most cases, you will only be able to download files, but your shares will be inaccessible. It doesn't seem to work with ProtonVPN for example, even when you built-in port-forwarding feature. And even if it did work, you would need to reconfigure and restart soulseek every time you reconnect the VPN, because their port-forwarding is randomizing the ports and there's no way to turn that off.

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Works fine if you've got Proton VPN set up as a gateway at your router.

[–] hisao@ani.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool idea, I almost forgot this feature even exists. I think I dismissed it the past when I realized it's probably not going to be easy to switch VPN servers this way.

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

It's actually not bad. All the setup is the same except the IPs, so you can just add/change those. They're replicated across 5 ports per server, so that's a little annoying, but it's still just easy copy paste.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

if you can, do. but it's not a necessity.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Doesn't hurt. It's very easy to route it through a gluetun container if you're selfhosting.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] dasenradman@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Soulseek (it's a music sharing software/network)