The simple fact that lemmy federates posts will mitigate the problems posed by this. For example if they want your IP, they need to go to lemmy.today, but for mine they will need to go to tchncs.de. If we were using reddit, they would be able to get everyone’s address with just one request. The more small instances there are, the harder it becomes.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php /s, but you can use the offical version for playing games and stuff without paying, and there are easy ways to get around the limitations (remove watermark, change desktop background, etc).

OTA TV will probably work, depending on how close you are to a transmitter, you might even be able to get away with an unbent paperclip as an antenna.

Well that’s another one for the “list of companies that are never getting my money”.

cdparanoia is old but has always worked fine, even on crappy drives and damaged disks. Even many modern tools like cyanrip just use cdparanoia to do the actual ripping, just wrapping it in a new UI. You will need to convert the output with another tool, but this is quite easy. (For mp3 disks, just mount them and copy the files, no special tools needed)

I greatly prefer the occasional original post with actuall engagement to a flood of reposts. If I want reddit posts, I will go on reddit (and also get comments and things like that). On a more meta level, the only way a community can gain and retain users is by offering unique content. If 99% of content is just content from Reddit (with missing comments), why should anyone bother to use Lemmy?

Subscribing to a comunity does not cost anything, very few people will leave a community because it is dead, but people will leave a community that spams their feed.

That’s what the subscribed feed is for.

A good 40% of users are spread out on servers with less then 5% of the overall user base, but that is still a good 60% in the top 5 instances, considering how laggy lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are, I am surprised anyone stays on them.

No, but there are tools that can automatically copy over your subscribed communities.

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discuss.tchnics.de is quite lenient when it comes to defederation, only defederating instances that host content illegal under German law (CP, Nazi shit) and blatant calls for violence (Nazi shit) or massive spamming. Based in Germany so somewhat decent privacy (still in the 14 eyes). Main languages are English and German, but others are permitted.

Keep in mind that Lemmy as a whole provides very little privacy, with any instance being able to log almost all activity.

Also, images are not proxies by default so you can do this:

I was expecting the QR code to be a rick roll, but it wasn’t. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Why is the chip naked? Get a can or some epoxy.

Just a blocking occilstor based on a 2N3904. I later found that adding a capacitor across the coil connected to the transistors emiter and operating it at resonance, greatly improves the power consumption. (30mA to 1mA)

You can connect to most instances over Tor, but hosting a server over a Tor hidden service would cause problems as it can’t be connected to by stock servers. (If you convince others to run other Tor hidden service instances, they could probably federate with each other)

They even stole x.org’s logo:

Interestingly, I can see this. Maybe they require a whole world match to avoid the Scunthorpe problem. (Test: cunt cunty )

I don’t think there is a swear filter in settings, it looks to be a per instance option (looking a the source code it is).

I can from discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.world, but from lemmy.ml bitch is censored.

It’s either the instance sending the comment, or your instance. Let’s check: fuck shit crap bitch

Edit: looks like lemmy.ml censored bitch.

If you don’t want this, just get an account on another instance. There are some tools to help copy over your list of subscriptions.