Should be similar on most Linux distros.

Can you mount them? If so what does that look like?

Yeah I get that. I wasn’t suggesting Invidious. I was saying NewPipe is a good option because you can port your subscriptions to other platforms.

You don’t need to start fresh every time you start using an open source alternative.

That said it would work in OP’s situation because it’s pretty much platform agnostic and there are available apps to make it easier to use on the Play Store. I still think NewPipe is the way to go though because it’s designed for Android.

Yeah. As long as you don’t make any alterations to the VM like sharing drives for example. If you had enough storage you could also make snapshots on occasion so you have a back up in the event of malware but you wouldn’t likely get malware unless you are opening the files on that VM

Probably the Audiobook Bay

Worth noting you can export your subscriptions on NewPipe so you can bring them to other platforms.

On PC you can you use Individious

Is Railway Hosting what people are using for hosting Lemmy instances?

The good thing is Lemmy isn’t like Reddit where a subreddit becomes locked if inactive for an extended period of time. You could still post there and people who sort by new will see your content.

Even if the mod was active people would likely only see it by sorting through all or manually searching for it.

Also more willing to engage from what I’ve seen

You can see why in the comment

I tried to sign up. Missed an answer to one of 3 questions. Application got rejected. Tried it once again but I can’t do that with the same email. Need to appeal by installing/using another app to do so. What?!

It’s the technical issues and general troubles people have adjusting to Lemmy. It doesn’t help that Lemmy and its mobile apps are still rapidly developing.

A lot of people are lazy too. They’ve gotten accustomed to having certain communities available with a single login while they poop.

Lots of people also found the whole Reddit blackout cringy, unjustified, and pointless largely missing the point.

I’d recommend using something Spotiflyer or some program that converts YouTube playlists to MP3 files and iTunes to transfer them

Just like Reddit

Would be neat to see an open source engine recreation

Sure, but why would someone running a near-isolated instance want to list it there? They would just end up dealing with a lot of annoyed & disappointed users.

Maybe they only want to deal with a specific niche. For example a university that only wants to federate with other academic organizations

threesixtyp is my top for TV shows. The only other unloaders I keep track of are for repackers like Fit-Girl and Gnarly

On top of what other people have already said each instance has different rules. One instance might have rules against NSFW content and defederate from NSFW instances while others may be fine with it.

I hate to say it, but I think the relative inaccessibility of Lemmy makes the community wholly better. Reddit’s decline really began when any cunt with shit views could easily download their app, make an account in two seconds, and spew hate all over. Before that, it was just nerds like me who at their computer all day to chat.

Unfortunately I feel like that hate and those shitty views are going to spread here soon. I’ve already seen some people unnecessarily gate keeping over niche topics which is one thing but there’s also hateful communities. I can block them but another always seems to spring up.

Don’t you think things might become muddled if it serves both purposes? How often do you see people on Reddit admitting they were wrong or compromising versus arguing and when one side concedes just downvoting the other persons comments?

On a sidenote one thing that bugged me about Reddit was people making a comment that agreed with another comment but added nothing but still getting up votes because people agree with it. For example “This” with nothing else.

Even though it’s meaningless I have seen some people in different communities voting down comments and posts they don’t agree with like on Reddit which is unfortunate.

For the piracy community I hope it doesn’t just turn into passive aggressive comments directing people to the megathread all the time.

I like helping people dig for obscure stuff

There’s a Linus Tech Tips video that talks about it and they mention how it’s been cut back due to the availability of the Internet increasing