Good news is it's much harder to accidentally wipe/fragment all your files than it is to break your system

If anything is lost right now, you might be able to get it back just by booting from a live USB to explore your file system

I've been banned from Facebook for years and reddit has also repeatedly banned me. Among many other bans, those are the ones that have had the most impact on my life and made me committed to censorship-resistant internet tech. I also believe the more open source tech can resist censorship, the more corporate platforms might be pressured to offer freedom of speech / unbiased enforcement in order to compete

You have a lot of good points here.

One of the main problems with my suggestion is the privacy issue you mentioned. Even using Tor doesn't actually come with a promise of anonymity. That would stop me from running an instance myself, even if federation over Tor works.

Enjoying PieFed overall so far, will keep investigating how it works

I think nuclear power will inevitably continue to go wrong (once in a while) as long as humans use it, and it could contribute to the extinction of the planet if overused, so I hope it only goes wrong in ways that result in people not using it where it's not needed, instead of ways that result in no life surviving human impact

You are correct

Some might be more trustworthy than others though. I think Eden seems like a pretty good project run by good devs

After what Microsoft did with the Cortana character, they don't even really own Halo anymore. Just the "copyright"

/u/Substantial-Story530 on reddit, who was buried in downvotes. Who's laughing now?

Liability is inevitable, so when they seemingly try to "shut it down," remember that the real goal is not only to delay it, but secretly also to shift it.

They offer people money to shield them from accountability, but later, when there is accountability, they will blackmail those same people and throw them under the bus.

If someone lets the authorities bribe them to sell out the safety of future generations, there's nothing they can say to defend themselves when the authorities later say "oh look, we found the guy that sold out the safety of future generations, what shall the punishment be?"

Be ready to help low-ranking criminals betray higher-ranking criminals, not just blindly attack whatever target is put in front of you.

Everyone has already suggested soulseek, so I will also add that on rare occasions I've been able to find downloads with Yandex that I couldn't find on soulseek or anywhere else.

For your consideration: ring-necked snake, an actual species about the size of a worm.

(Fuck Bluesky btw, I was an early adopter and I'm one of many users they've banned over false accusations - can't even find a way to download an archive of my account despite the network claiming to be "decentralized")

Before the Holocaust or World War 2, there were groups in Germany who you were just allowed to target with crimes, and they weren't allowed to do anything about it.

I think you're supposed to get out of the car and walk up to read it before continuing your trip