I disagree with the VPN ban, but I understand the purpose.

Isn’t there a better way? Is there a back end that can be added to scan uploads for matching CSAM hashes?

Stop using the DDG Browser.

Librewolf updates all the time, probably weekly (I don’t watch it that closely).

Sentinel dVPN does/did the same thing. You’d connect to their network, pay a Node operator directly with the network’s coin, and you’d use their connection. Don’t know how safe it was, with respect to seeing the through-traffic, but it did work.

These people are definitely not “the first”

I do the same for desktop machines, just to identify immediately without hostnames.

Why would we eat lab-grown human when there are so many delicious animals to be had?

Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry’s?

*Fracking

Do you live anywhere near a natural gas extraction (tracking) site?

Not only browsers, but operating system as well. Using GrapheneOS, eOS, or whatever?

Denied. Stock OS only on OUR internet, sorry.

Here’s another large discussion:

https://lemm.ee/post/2081589

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

For now. This is a near-future thing.

Why would they sell you something for $50 one time, when they can charge you $9.99 / month forever?

Lemmy.one is run by the guy who runs privacy guides.org. That being said, if you look at the small list of communities he created, I guarantee that he won’t allow any conservative views there either. There’s one privacy community and 4 or 5 alternative lifestyle communities.

Better off making your own instance at this point. Most of Lemmy is liberal/left wing regardless of what their sidebars say.

Alternating feet requires that each leg’s muscle groups work in complete opposite to each other. Your brain has to process doing two different things at the same time.

Hopping is probably closer to whatever the first fish to flop up on land and breath air did.

“You appear to think abortion is the act of killing the fetus. This is wrong. Abortion is the act of removing the fetus from the womb.”

So what typically happens when you remove a fetus (with a heartbeat, brain activity, and arguably, a functioning CNS) from the womb? It dies.

While I believe you are almost completely wrong, it’s your right to discuss it. It’s mine to disagree. However, one side can’t discuss their beliefs if the other side who controls the button says no.

You’re saying that abortions are used to end non-viable pregnancies. I’m saying that there are millions of people who do it because they just don’t want the product of their intercourse. Some abortions I can accept, in very specific circumstances, but we will still never agree.

Are there pro-choice communities?

Pro-choice ranges anywhere from using contraceptives and real reproductive health, to murdering babies just because they aren’t wanted.

Your opinions are as valid as theirs. It doesn’t matter which one of you are wrong.
∴

I’m gonna host my own instance, with blackjack, and hookers!

I’d argue point #1.

I think it is better to have two accounts, with the same subscriptions, on two vastly different instances. At least for now.
There are going to be a lot of growing pains with upgrades/updates, and things breaking. As it stands right now, if “lemmy.world” goes down, half the lemmy-verse is inaccessible.

If I have another account on say “lemmy.one”, I can still connect to all the other instances (except for .world of course).

New people are going to gravitate to the largest instance because human nature suggests people want to belong to large groups. That is the intent of your point #1, to spread the load. I would clarify the objective to explain why people shouldn’t have their only account on the largest instance.

Example using US states: I’m on the Pennsylvania instance. I can see what’s going on in the other 49 instances, as well as the Washington DC instance (through federation). I should still have a representative in DC just in case.

I have yet to see any porn.