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  • Never torrent without 1)a VPN, one that 2)gives you a dedicated IP.

    A VPN is great for most things, but not quite enough for torrenting.

    This is because (everyone please correct me if wrong) torrenting is peer-to-peer which means that someone seeding to you can see your real isp-issued IP address. They can contact your ISP and whine about you.

    If some copyright guardian sets up a honeypot, they could get your identity even if you use a VPN.

    The solution is to use a VPN that gives out a substitute IP address they own (and therefore keep private) which then redirects traffic to you.

    There may be better ones out there but I haven’t bothered looking ever since I signed up with privateinternetaccess and use their “Dedicated IP” setting.


  • Not just that, but if I have a question about, say, Linux scripts, then I have to search fifty fucking communities names c/Linux in fifty fucking instances to find a solution.

    Just because an instance has the biggest community doesn’t mean it will have an answer. So I do have to look at fifty fucking instances.

    I haven’t seen a single viable argument that justifies this irritating and inconvenient situation except i LiKe fEdErAtIoN.

    And for the federation fetishists, yes you can have federation AND one single c/Linux across instances.

    If you don’t want to read Linux tips from lemmy.naziLinuxUsers.com then just block that instance like you would block a nazi individual on reddit.

    This problem is so ridiculously easy, but for some reason the mediocre status quo always has its ardent defenders.