For me it was that all my friends used it. So we share and comment posts a lot there. Now we do not have an alternative.

Yep, the observer it is not only observing, it is interacting in order to measure.

Measure, not look. Measure implies interaction. That's why the result changes.

If you are sharing a lot of music I really don't mind if you download several albums from me, nowadays with this bandwith I dont care. If you want to be extra polite just a quick "thanks for the music " is perfect. Thanks for sharing your personal rips, that is quality content.

https://lemmy.world/c/opensignups

once you are in just escalate to others through invites forums.

This seems like work but from/for home.

If all users do the same soulseek would be dead.

when I started browsing \b\ I thought that they were nazis only for the lulz. Right now Im not sure if I was wrong.

OSM is just a database, not maps or routing.

I remember when I tried OSM maps for navigate my city a lot of years ago, awful experience. Today is almost perfect and changes in roads are updated so fast. I love OpenStreetMap.

It's not that simple, take a look at this article: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

I used it because the feature of marking posts as read after scroll across them and hide them on demand.