No. Soulseek is old school P2P. All you need to do is run the client software, set a local shared folder, and your are client and server in one. Funkwhale is more like running your own Lemmy instance and building a community. The difference between them is like the difference between using Airdrop or Syncthing to share files and hosting hosting your own domain and server.
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Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months agoIs funkwhale also a sort of soulseek?
Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 months ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like share with friends sort of?
three@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Oh no, around here we mention esoteric software but we will never include any extra information in the post. If you know you know.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No need to play secret hacker lol 😊
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 months ago
Soulseek afict requires dedicated clients. The Subsonic standard is supported by more & more mobile/PC apps, I wish it was supported
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
AFAIK: Yes. But it’s supposedly a pain to set up, so I’ll never know the difference.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 months ago
TBH I plan to migrate off Funkwhale to something more featureful and yea it was a bit of complex set up. Props to the devs tho, it’s open source, stable, and does what it says on the tin
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok, thanks