The point of federation is that there are thousands of instances that no monied asshole can just buy and ruin for everyone. If you like that, Reddit,twitter,FB,tiktok are just there…or just join one instance and pretend it is the only one. What is the problem exactly?

It wasn’t that bad, gold just signals that the comment is good (intensity), but some of the other awards made explicit the way in which it is good (hue/flavour) e.g. funny, informative, creative, sarcastic…I actually liked the award system (even if I always was a bit suspicious of who was giving them and what their intentions were)

Well, that makes a lot of sense now :) thanks.

It’s a paid service where you can enter a premium link or torrent link to it and it will generate a direct download link. This is very useful if you visit premium sites like Mega and RapidGator where if you don’t have an account, it enforces limits such as:

Slow download speed (e.g. max 1MB per second while downloading)
Maximum number of downloads per hour (e.g. 1 file per 5 hours)
No resume support
Unable to download if file is larger than a certain amount (e.g. no more than 5GB per file allowed for non-premium users)

more on the old site: https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/q3vqgv/introduction_to_debrid_services/

Is this topic-specific or are there other bots other than the one in UnderNet? I’ve never found on IRC a book that wasn’t in libgen

Didn’t they ask why you got banned? What did you do, what did you dooooo?

Major reason not to buy ebooks from amazon: you can’t lend, give, exchange, sell them and you may lose all of them if you anger the right people. They are not yours, you are not buying them, you merely paid for conditioned access to them.

Because reddit is inundated with bots and trolls. You could see it during the gone private strike, people who can’t think 2 steps ahead heckling the mods for wanting to be able to do their job voluntarily.

PS: see https://lemmy.world/post/1044141

I think the only widely used site that has miraculously avoided enshittification has been wikipedia, because of a rock-solid ethical foundation.

We’ll live. Long live the fediverse (and old-school forums)

BTW: was there ever or is there any sort of listing for all sorts of hobbyist or thematic forums? The main reason I never used many of them was because I never came across them and admittedly it was pretty easy to do that in reddit just by typing r/doesacommunityforthistopicexist

edit: is there some similar listing for mastodon? I’m having trouble finding a type of technical-oriented crowd.

If you know any community that’s not heavily moderated and does not look like 4chan, lemmy know.

vraiment utile, cette page, merci.

isn’t XMPP what you’re asking for? I’m not a user, but I’m aware that these things exist, they just don’t catch on because it’s a nightmare to do federation and security all at once. Probably it will take some form of federated authentication ID, but then you have the problem of who manages that…