There's also a ton of info about usenet, how it works, and what to look for, on that site. (you may have to manually go to the homepage to see the rest)
This was one of my biggest motivations for moving to usenet. I don't like exposing myself by seeding. I have a giant folder full of copyright notices forwarded by my ISP because of it, and I don't want to pay for a vpn as it's far more expensive than usenet and just moves the problem/target to the vpn provider.
But an ssl connection to a usenet server goes unnoticed... Plus WAY faster download speeds, far more consistency in available files, and less spam/garbage content (at least in my experience, anecdotal).
Torrents took anywhere from an hour to multiple days before either completing or giving up and trying a different torrent. And then there's the seeding process ontop.
NZBs (usenet) take at the very most, 5min to finish or fail, at which point a new one can be tried automatically by sonarr/radarr if it had failed. Requests for media are now pretty much always ready to watch within 25min of requesting, and most of that is waiting for the library scan to trigger (I'm using SAMBA so filesystem updates can't trigger scans automatically, they're on a timer instead)
The fuck it will. Until you grow a god damn spine and actually issue contempt charges (and have them enforced), ICE is going to continue to wipe their asses with your 'orders' and the US Constitution.
I'm not sure 'Dingus' is the word I'd use to describe a pedophile that's interested in his own daughter... Almost makes it sound like a playful mistake
The land may become uninhabitable by humans, but something tells me aquatic life will be alright... Maybe not all of it, but there will be adaptation and life will go on.
That's not to say destroying our ecosystems is ok, just that we're probably not going to end life entirely.
Perhaps there can be a place for it, I just mean it should not be an automatically and consistently part of peoples feeds. Creators should have a place for it that's easy to find/access for those that want/seek it. Just don't shove it in people's faces without their explicit prior consent.
I don't think the general/greater population of lemmy came here to find porn...
That's fair; I don't mean to minimize or dismiss the situation in either location, just that Minnesota was what specifically was on my mind when I wrote the comment.
I'm not looking to block out gore or triggering topics, particularly news stories such as what's come out of Portland Minnesota lately. Hell some of my own posts are NSFW, but I've never posted porn.
Disabling/blocking all NSFW entirely is not an acceptable solution when it's only porn I'm trying to not be flooded with.
At its peak, before instance blocking was a thing: 4/5 posts under the 'All' feed were porn. I posted a picture quite a while back (I'm not gonna go dig it out, but it's in my comment history), from before we could block an instance, with just a massive list of communities in my block list almost entirely from lemmynsfw. It was way over the top.
Now I can just block an instance or community that dedicates itself to porn and all is well. I still don't think that content belongs on a platform like this. If people want porn, they can go to the MANY sites that serve porn; it shouldn't be combined with your daily scrolling through news, current events, and funny cat videos*. But we have tools to work around it; so, moving on.
heavily paraphrasing for general everyday content that an average person may share with friends/family.
Edit: I have no idea why I said Portland... I meant Minnesota, referring to Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
I still have hundreds of communities from lemmynsfw in my blocklist from before instance based blocking was implemented. Pretty sure lemmynsfw is 95% responsible for that feature needing to be implemented.
I opened youtube on a corporate PC the other day - viewing ads on the platform for the first time in I don't even know how long, at least 8 years, probably a fair amount more - and was immediately repulsed. How do people live like this? I don't understand it either.
Pihole, revanced, sponsor block, ublock, .... Essential tools to access the Internet. My phones permanently connected to a self-hosted vpn that keeps it behind pihole wherever I am.
I swear god; If I ever look up at the night sky and see a billboard shining down at me from space, I'm bombing my nearest Google office.
You've done a pretty good job here, so I'll just add this:
A map of providers and some info on their benefits.
https://www.ngprovider.com/current-usenet-map.php
There's also a ton of info about usenet, how it works, and what to look for, on that site. (you may have to manually go to the homepage to see the rest)