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The only people in the chat seem to be the most racist, homophobic, sexist scumbags. It's like walking into a 4chan convention.. is that you guys? Why is it as soon as anonymity is there, the fucking assholes come out?

If this is the general spirit of piracy, I don't know if I'm interested

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[-] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 7 points 1 year ago

If this is the general spirit of piracy, I don't know if I'm interested

I don't use soulseek but no, I certainly wouldn't describe that attitude as the general spirit of piracy. I'm mostly familiar with the private torrent trackers. While I've certainly come across fascists (EMPRESS is a good example, they're pretty explicitly transphobic and include a bunch of slurs in their nfo's), I generally come across plenty of libs and even some anarchists and communists. And based on events and how the private trackers are moderated, the staff, at least on the sites I use, they seem pretty alright. For example, I know of at least a couple trackers that ran events for pride month.

And from hanging out in leftist spaces, they seem especially cool with piracy. They're anticapitalist after all, so it shouldn't be a surprise.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was recently in Blutopias Chatroom and genuinely had fun chatting there.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have met many decent people in Aither chat, but have also seen a few edgelords, although that is a much rarer sighting.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't participate in Aither thus far. But let's be honest: Even in the best chat there will probably some edgelord. Either in hiding, plain sight or just flat out being one. It might as well be me unvoluntarily.

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