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Anna's Archive has a full mirror of SciHub called SciDB

Hard disagree. Honestly, this would even be a compelling reason for me to leave this instance and spin up my own. I wanted to try out running an instance for quite some time now, and this would probably push me further toward that. That wouldn't have an impact on my moderation efforts, e.g. in c/piracy; there would be a smooth transfer.

little rant

Honestly, there are even more points that bother me about this instance. For example, the outright hate for cryptocurrency. Yeah, I'm aware of the anarchist theory of having no money or currency at all, but the first step is perhaps creating a better currency/money system with fewer inherent issues. It's hard to objectively judge whether crypto is better or worse per se, as there are always some positive and some negative aspects, but I don't understand why an anarchist instance pushes for a state-controlled, state-issued currency and hates decentralized attempts to create a currency controlled by the people. Sure, I don't like Bitcoin either, especially because of the privacy concerns, but Monero is a solid option with privacy/anonymity as a core design feature and an algorithm that makes using GPUs or ASICs unfeasible to try to democratize the mining process. At the same time, the criticism of AI, a similarly controversial topic, is restricted by policy. This doesn't make sense to me. I neither love nor hate AI, and I neither love nor hate cryptocurrency, but I think we should be able to have healthy and constructive debates/discussions about both without any instance-wide restrictions.

User-level community blocking is not at all the same as instance-level defederation. It doesn't hide posts and comments from users of the blocked instance, instead it only hides the communities themselves from the search results.

I'm quite sure that this is by design, because the tankie devs who also run lemmy.ml know that otherwise half the fediverse would instantly block them on a user-level and they would become tiny and irrelevant, but it's harder to convince an entire instance to block lemmy.ml.

Please let me know if you ever find a good solution, I'd appreciate it

Don't worry, I'm sure Facebook's data is in that database as well

I'm not the author. You can thank @rysiek@szmer.info for this amazing write-up

I remember using mktorrent a few years ago.

A friend of mine used to live right above a McDonalds and used their free Wi-Fi all the time.

The only combination of flags that actually stands for people's liberty and against ethnic/racist, imperialist oppression.

Glad to be a member of this awesome instance

Looks like an average Google Gemini reponse

Wikipedia has way more donors, since it's basically the only one of its kind. There is no Big Tech alternative to Wikipedia, so everyone just uses it by default. There are lots of other messengers though, so Signal isn't the default choice.

Finally a good approach at raising money (other than donations)

at least that's an actual English verb

Flagfox is a privacy nightmare, since it sends all the URLs you visit to a remote server. Use Server Status instead. It downloads a GeoIP database and stores it in your browser, and performs the lookups locally.

library = appobject code = appmachine code = appbinary = applinker = appbits = appdata = appstate = appstack = appheap = appvariables = appmemory allocator = appmemory = apptransistors = appsilicon = appwires = apppcb = appelectrons = appleptons = app

Just switched to FreeRDP.

Edit: FreeRDP on macOS isn't exactly nice.