VPN has its uses but it depends where OP lives. Places like the US? Sure. But most developing nations (mostly, not all) tend to be lax.

Well it’s Easy Install Bundle For Windows (Beta), so no linux for now other than traditional packages.

I just checked i2p website and it looks like they launched a bundled distribution easy to install just like torbrowser. Hope it catches on and more filesharing moves to i2p.

The forums are still alive, if not as active they used to.

Definitely, libreddit is how i got around internet filters to browse reddit.

Problem is the damage what this unstable person can do. She’s distributing binaries that are executed on windows PC with security measures disabled on purpose. If she went rogue and started inserting malware or cryotominers, tons of people would be affected.

Exactly what the trick is. Once the precedent is set, they can exploit the hell out of it.

It became the largest instance and the one to absorb most of the attention-seekers that expect to be treated as “customers”, despite the instance admin (of lemmy.world) emphasizing they’re all volunteers working for the community.