I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.
Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!
How is this different than say Qbit?
Soulseek has no torrents and no swarms. It's a classic, direct peer-to-peer connection between you and another user. You have to choose to share items in your library, like in the old days. Most file sharing like this was shut down two decades ago now since bittorrent was alive and kicking in 2001 and became the dominant way to share files. However, Soulseek has somehow flown under the radar and kept chugging along. It's my premier place to find obscure music I can't find anywhere else.