Thanks for the tip about the archived Reddit link, I've updated it!
For the seed to leech ratio you're right, but I feel like it might be a bit much to throw at somebody who's just figuring all this stuff out. It's not a guide on how to seed safely, I don't want to encourage people to put themselves at risk who don't yet have the skills to protect themselves.
Thanks for the report about ProtonVPN, I haven't used it in a bit so I didn't know. Do you know a better free VPN which does allow torrenting? I know a paid one would always be better, but this is for people who are just not willing to spend money. A shady free VPN is better than none.
For VirusTotal I know about the false positives, that's also why I included the reddit post on how to interpret the results. I still find a scan to be good practice to weed out the more obvious malware.
It's there... Step 4 of the section "Download A Torrent Client". I didn't call it "binding an interface" because the intended target of this post would have no idea what that means.
Yeah I wasn't majorly worried, just checking.
Thanks. How does that work though? iTunes points it to the RSS feed of the individual results?
And do you know if there are any privacy risks associated with depending on iTunes?
I also recommend AntennaPod, I use it daily and it works great for a FOSS app. I've always found any podcast I've looked for, I'm not sure how the search engine works, but it works great.
Paraphrasing:
"I hate it when there's a diverse market with multiple different options in active evolution. I actually preferred when we had a monopoly and everybody fucking hated it."
The twitter meltdown is really generating the worst takes ever huh... Did we forget that people used to call Twitter "the hellsite" until a few months ago, when it was better?
Awesome work folks, thanks!
Eh, it's a bit naive IMO. It's nice to focus on your small, close-knit community, but it does not live in a vacuum. At some point the world (read: capital) will come knocking at it's door, and if you've been sticking your head in the sand until now you will not be prepared for what happens.
Also, what if I don't want my community to be small and close-knit? Lemmy is way more interesting now that it was a month ago, after growing by an order of magnitude. Ask anyone who's grown up in a rural town and they'll confirm this: tiny communities are fucking boring.
What you're trying to do is often called "domain delegation" or "well-known delegation". Here's an example of the documentation for the same thing in matrix-synapse. I don't know if the Lemmy server supports this yet, my suggestion would be to join the matrix chat for the development and ask there. You should find a link to the chat room on the github page. If it does support it then most likely the process is the same as the one I linked for matrix.
Sure, but this isn't finding new instances, just new communities on known instances. Indeed, this is not difficult to implement. The reason it's not done already is for resource economy. A lot of instances are already struggling to scale, making them process and store a lot more content with little value for most users of the instance isn't feasible for a lot of servers right now.
Well it has embedded GIFs and videos, it's not gonna work without JS...
On a side note, people are way too paranoid about JavaScript for privacy. Browsers are much better at sandboxing and restricting webpages than they used to be. Sure, I guess only viewing static pages like it's 1995 is better for privacy, but it's a bit unreasonable of a tradeoff to make.