DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]

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https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-china/

if you want an analysis of China that isn’t just based on vibes

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It’s not they probably just don’t know about soulseek / nicotine+

It’s just so much better than any other method I have to assume anyone using these overly complicated methods just doesnt know

Just the idea of downloading playlists instead of albums / discographies feels so incredibly icky to me

Some people will have share requirements but I don’t think enough do to make getting started a problem. All of my stuff is totally unrestricted so if you like death metal / jazz I can help you out.

Not sure if there is a guide out there but it’s pretty easy and I can help you through it. First you’ll need to make an account name and password. I remember it prompting for it the first startup but if not look through the options. Then you’ll want to set the path to your music library in preferences -> shares. These are the files that you’re making available to people searching and downloading. Then go to preferences -> downloads -> folders. I like to set my download folder as separate from my music library so that I can standardize it to my naming conventions, clean up metadata, and place it directly into my Artist - Album folder hierarchy, but you could probably get by with just setting this to your music library directly if you aren’t in to that side of things. You can also set things like upload and queue limits and all that while in the preferences tab. Then just go to the “search files” tab and it’s pretty easy to find what you want. I usually just go with “[album title] flac” and that’s enough to get it 95% of the time even for obscure stuff. Pick an uploader based on speed / how nicely organized the files are, then just right click the folder name -> download folder and it will move over to the download tab.

Realized right after typing this out that there is a setup assistant at help -> setup assistant. Probably way more helpful than I am but feel free to ask anything else if you need to!

soulseek is still the best. Use the Nicotine+ and it’s even better.

I miss the old days of Reddit where people actually followed reddiquette

This should be acceptable basis for a lemmy wide IP ban.

Pretentious and extremely liberal still fit perfectly for reddit today. They definitely aren’t anti-american though. They have an unquestioning bloodlust for every US state department adversary

Nice, more redditors can only make a forum worse.

Clearly not true, but I hope you’re having fun with whatever it is you think you’re doing here!

Thanks for your contribution to the discussion! Great stuff as always.

Democracy and authoritarianism are not mutually exclusive The USA is a “democracy.” The USA is also one of the most authoritarian countries in the world.

There are so many people who believe that the ideology suppressed by the government is always bad. While this is sometimes the case, this is definitely not the case for authoritarianism.

Wouldn’t the government suppressing an ideology also be authoritarian?

(all governments are authoritarian)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

Also can’t pass up the chance to point out that the capitalist USA has the world’s largest prison population by both total incarcerated and per capita. That seems pretty authoritarian to me.

There a plenty of very sensible people who have issues with NATO. If you’re interested in an intro into one of the reasons why that is I’d recommend reading To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Perenti.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/1721-to-kill-a-nation

It’s on sale for only $3 right now!

Anti-sectarianism as in no hostile ML vs anarchist debate club style shit, and no derogatory names for other leftist tendencies. There’s a lot of that in most of the larger online left spaces and it gets extremely tiring seeing the same arguments play out endlessly.

it originated as a shit posting site after reddit banned the chapotraphouse subreddit, but it has become its own thing over the past few years. Primarily it’s a left unity space - communists, anarchists, etc all welcome with no tolerance for sectarianism. Still a lot of shitposting, but also in depth discussions about news and books. We’ve developed a pretty strong site culture as well with an emphasis on discussion (we don’t have downvotes), and probably the strongest anti-bigotry rules you’ll find anywhere. It is 100% not full of trolls or fascists. I think a lot of liberals who have never heard from communists in any meaningful numbers are just very confused on their first encounter with us

Every unmoderated internet space is destined to look like that. Just use it for music sharing and you won’t even know the chat is there.

The thing is though, most people do distinguish them quite heavily. The hammer and sickle is still frequently used as an international symbol of worker’s liberation while the swastika, black sun, etc are firmly attached to one of the greatest atrocities in human history. To compare them as equals, even without their direct relation in history, is extremely strange and something that only fascists would typically do in an effort to downplay the holocaust