At least with Proton VPN, it seems that some VPN servers are blocked while others aren’t. Trying with one server worked, while another resulted in a 403 Forbidden error.

Seems like the solution is to just change VPN servers until you find one with an IP that isn’t blocked. Otherwise, the Torrentio configuration page shows the following message, and Torrentio itself can’t be used in Stremio:

If you use Torrentio with Stremio, Torrentio blocks VPNs, though I don’t know why a VPN block would be impacting one platform but not another.

Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.

Because it’s still officially called the Department of Defense; only Congress can rename it.

More broadly, it illustrates the administration’s use of illegal boat strikes and regime change as foreign policy tools.

Your game has malicious ads:

Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.

Not sure how; it’s also not by defederation date, otherwise feddit.org would be at or near the bottom of the list for dbzer0.

The best tool I know of is the Federation Checker, but something like it should definitely should be built into clients.

Notably, Beehaw is defederated from .world and sh.itjust.works, while dbzer0, quokk.au, and anarchist.nexus are defederated from feddit.org.

Overall, I’d say that most of the downvotes are people disagreeing with the article’s core criticism of Mozilla’s AI language translation using scraped content; then people see the excessive crossposts and assume you’re a spammer and mass-downvote them.

Given that !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the second largest Lemmy community, it’s clear from the start that piracy-bashing articles are going to have mixed reception at the best of times. In addition, the article places an undue emphasis on Mozilla’s practices rather than the industry as a whole.

Ultimately, the article should have been half as long and give readers a clear solution at the end, such as instead using a Firefox fork to make opt-out the default. While not likely to be as effective as an AI trained with non-permissive license content, such an explanation at the end could also have recommend an open source translation AI extension trained solely with permissive license content.

In the future, perhaps try posting your article once in the most popular relevant community, and if people respond well, then crosspost it a maximum of two or three times (3-4 posts total). More than that and people will think you’re spamming.

Lemmy does need to get better about being welcoming to newcomers, so apologies for the rough start; if you have any questions, feel free to send me a message. 👍

Be more selective with your crossposting in the future or people will downvote you for spamming.

Agreed; Discord is trying to lull people into a false sense of security as a means of convincing them to stay, in the same manner that Reddit gave limited API access to apps like RedReader to stem the tide of users leaving for platforms like Lemmy.

Beyond age verification, if Discord is scanning a user’s messaging history to determine what their age is, one can only imagine all the other data valuable to data brokers that they are extracting from it too.

“Too late” isn’t even relevant anyway, they’re still doing it, so everyone should still be leaving.

There’s websites with paywalls that even Bypass Paywalls Clean can’t bypass. In cases that it can, it sometimes just fetches the article contents from archive.today.

That doesn’t mean an alternative shouldn’t be found, but we also shouldn’t pretend that nothing is being lost by losing access to unpaywalled sources. For practical purposes, a paywalled source means no source for most readers, unless a non-paywalled alternative can be found to replace it.

While archive.org is good and more trustworthy than archive.is, it isn’t as useful for bypassing paywalls.

There’s a typo in the title: 583 should be 585.