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Abnormal meaning "not normal?" Very abnormal. As others have mentioned there are some edge cases where this isn't terrible, but in general it's a pretty bad look.

Classic.

I am wagnetic.

You can obviously see Brazil there...

As an American, I'm worried that Starmer's legacy is going to be giving you PM Nigel Farage.

Yeah. All I need to do is browse All on Hot and... It's just there. I'm surprised OP hasn't seen it by accident.

As far as the US is concerned (because a lot of this stuff does depend on jurisdiction), you're most likely going to be raided by a state-level police department (local PD, county sheriff, etc). They don't give a hoot about pirated material because that's a federal crime.

If you were raided by the FBI, ATF, DEA, etc., they could use any pirated content they found to bring up criminal charges against you.

There are four essential elements to a charge of criminal copyright infringement. In order to sustain a conviction under section 506(a), the government must demonstrate: (1) that a valid copyright; (2) was infringed by the defendant; (3) willfully; and (4) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.
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This is the actual stated goal of Bitcoin. And this is an actual use for it. But that ship sailed a very long time ago.

Tall boy of Honey Brown and Pure Comedy by Father John Misty.

It is similar to Lemmy in that it's also a link aggregation platform. What makes it different is that it is created by different people using different code and has different priorities. But the same basic features are present.

I can't speak to why it might be better than Lemmy because I don't use it. Maybe some people think it's better because of the features it offers. Maybe others don't like the Lemmy devs and prefer supporting a different application. There are lots of possible reasons.

Thanks for the question. I've been wondering how to do this myself.

Yep some people don't have a lot of other options.