Yup. In switzerland its legal to leech, illegal to seed.

Wanna search on “google” without selling your data to google.

Well just like duckduckgo is basically bing but with trackers removed, startpage https://startpage.com/ is the same for google!

slrpnk.net in general is a good instance.

This is just a single community in the instance.

And PieFed is a software that is compatible with lemmy. So basically it’s a whole bunch of instances that run piefed, not just one.

And “karma” per say isn’t calculated on piefed, just users who get more downvotes than upvotes on most their comments lose some priviledges.

There are exceptions, I think Piefed (see [email protected] ) calculates and uses it in a couple ways.

And some communities like [email protected] autoban people with low karma scores I think. Using [email protected].

Data is Beautiful Blandly Presented but Terrifying

Is this automatic?

Honestly it’s working fine for me. I torrent shows and movies and I switch between TGX 1337X and TPB, based on offering and I can always find what I need, and download it in a reasonable time.

I’m trying to work on seeding better though, I can’t manage to crack that 0.8 ratio yet.

Yep. Problem is the user is on ios where it is at best a massive pain to torrent and at worst impossible.

I think server admins can access. It makes sense moderation wise, if for keeping a tab on alts for enforcing permabans.

Yes, but as long as you don’t reveal your identity, they can’t do much to track you.

They don’t have access to your IP.

Of course, it you’re using the same username over multiple services, or reveal identifying information (which is much easier to analyse now due to AI) they will be able to track you.

To be fair I think lemmy kind of radicalised me. When I got here I felt like a left wing outcast on reddit, but I was in reality more like somewhere between a socdem and a dem soc type.

After a year here, I’ve been enlightened so much on online privacy and FOSS and stuff, learnt a lot about leftism and cool movements like solarpunk, and now find myself using the label “anarchism” to describe my political views. Lemmy has definitely slowly radicalised me and taught me a bunch of stuff.

Bluesky has a feature where you can stop someone from quoting your post if you don’t like what they are saying.

Honestly such a poor excuse given literally every other google search yields reddit as a top result.

I would disagree. The default UI might feel shoddy, but using apps and custom UIs like tesseract or photon and it really doesn’t look shoddy at all.

Apple is just like the rest of big tech. They tried to play it as if they were the ethical one, but in the end all these private corpos are just the same.

I’m stuck with voyager now that I’ve invested lots of time into their tagging system.

I look at it this way. If my grandparent asks me how to do “the email”, I’m not going to explain to them how they could choose protonmail or nextcloud or whatever. I’m just going to choose and send the one I think is easiest for them to set up.

This isn’t always the case though. That’s just one example of difference between instances.

Instances can change everything, from being able to view nsfw content, if you can downvote or not, and who you can talk to (big difference between instances federated with ML/grad/hexbear and not. (And then the BeeHaw Defeds make a difference too).

That’s why I when I recommend the threadiverse (aka. lemmy or piefed or Mbin) to people I just send a link to an instance I think they’ll like. Instead of explaining the whole thing. If they join the instance with time federation will start to make sense to them and they might migrate later on.

Ewww. Deleting the app.