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Should I be using a VPN for slsk?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours 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 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours 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 1 points 8 hours 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.

[–] Agosagror 3 points 15 hours ago

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