What pissed me off about reddit is how it fingerprinted your machine.

If you don't know what that is, be scared. Be very scared.

That meant if some power-mad admin lording it over some subreddit blocked me for petty reasons, it would be easy to get all my other 6 alt accounts permanently banned.

F YOU for that, reddit.

Found some anti-fingerprinting defenses, which protect me at other sites, is the only silver lining.

My adblockers work so well I haven't seen a reddit ad in years.

I use block origin, noscript, plus my own pihole.

Root problem Is the name 'Lemmy', which is kinda lame-y.

Also bad is that we're not called Redditors but ... lemmings? Lemurs?

Almost worth changing the name.

Simple and captivating. This is worthy of being framed in a pride-of-place at your house.

Never torrent without 1)a VPN, one that 2)gives you a dedicated IP.

A VPN is great for most things, but not quite enough for torrenting.

This is because (everyone please correct me if wrong) torrenting is peer-to-peer which means that someone seeding to you can see your real isp-issued IP address. They can contact your ISP and whine about you.

If some copyright guardian sets up a honeypot, they could get your identity even if you use a VPN.

The solution is to use a VPN that gives out a substitute IP address they own (and therefore keep private) which then redirects traffic to you.

There may be better ones out there but I haven't bothered looking ever since I signed up with privateinternetaccess and use their "Dedicated IP" setting.

One of those "racism isn't real" is the Chief "Justice" of the USSC

Not just that, but if I have a question about, say, Linux scripts, then I have to search fifty fucking communities names c/Linux in fifty fucking instances to find a solution.

Just because an instance has the biggest community doesn't mean it will have an answer. So I do have to look at fifty fucking instances.

I haven't seen a single viable argument that justifies this irritating and inconvenient situation except i LiKe fEdErAtIoN.

And for the federation fetishists, yes you can have federation AND one single c/Linux across instances.

If you don't want to read Linux tips from lemmy.naziLinuxUsers.com then just block that instance like you would block a nazi individual on reddit.

This problem is so ridiculously easy, but for some reason the mediocre status quo always has its ardent defenders.

It's kind of the symptom of bad design.

False choice fallacy. Those are not the only two choices. We can look for ways for lemmy itself to help resolve the issue.

Who?

Try Astroglide

1337x has started requiring you to sign up with your email address before you can download. Not today, FBI