glad someone else is feeling this. it’s really strange and depressing seeing so many good things collapse within the year. and we’re getting no wins whatsoever
Well, I count finding Lemmy as an absolute win
Federated piracy isn’t just next, I’d argue it’s almost the only solution.
Why, what happened? Did some big piracy site get shut down?
Honestly I’m somewhere between “average person” and “ultra nerd” so the fact that I am finally too fed up with reddit and leaving for mastodon and lemmy makes me think more people will do likewise. I call that a win.
The “enshitification” of the web recently feels almost coordinated. Factually; it is not coordinated; it’s just bad luck.
Still stinks though. Society still has not learned that allowing capitalism to run rampantly unchecked is generally causing these issues.
I dunno. Reddit has been pretty toxic ever since 2016. Browsing Lemmy instead is undoubtedly good for my blood pressure.
Even within a month
Removed by mod
Purge? Is this about the porn ban, or something else?
Removed by mod
Oh man that sucks.
I didn’t realise RARBG had shut down. Such a shame, that was a great site for torrents.
deleted by creator
What was Mullvad port forwarding about?
They deleted the feature because of pedos 🤮
Removed by mod
Do you know a not sus VPN that supports p2p torrenting? I 🏴☠️ tens of games a month and recently our fascist government just passed a draconian anti piracy law, what VPN should I look to?
Removed by mod
What about Mullvad?
Removed by mod
Can you explain a bit more, if you don’t mind? From what I’ve read not being able to port forward can decrease the number of connections you can make while torrenting (i.e. slower down-/upload), but I don’t see why this would cause IP leaks assuming your torrent client is configured to only use VPN connections. I’ve never used it personally. Not trying to be obtuse or anything, I’m just a bit confused and very sceptical in terms of alternatives because I’m not very serious in terms of torrenting and would be hesitant to change my trust.
Would you move to usenet to no longer use torrents?
Removed by mod
Windscribe is also based in Canada - I don’t trust them for many reasons. AzireVPN seems good too albeit a bit expensive.
Personally I’m getting AirVPN once my Surfshark subscription ends (I know, it’s awful, but I already payed for it 🙄)
You are better off getting a seedbox from some place in Europe than trying to deal with slow vpn speeds.
In the past I have used BtGuard.
Here’s a link, if anyone wanted to read more: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
Me over here trying to figure out how to get i2p running in qbittorrent so I don’t need a VPN anymore.
That’s possible?
*RARBG
It has been hard week fer us salty sea dogs
haha
