Dyskolos

Why are you still here? Don't you have prayers to pray or thoughts to suppress? Be a good obedient puppy, you'd never be one of those who managed to quit your cult.

Without mods it took a good while, true. Back when it first came out. But mods really turn this old bugger around some times and then some. And that took most of the time i've put into the old bugfest. Though the community fixed most of those bugs, really runs like a charm nowadays.

Indeed. I was unfair of me to pick only one favourite, as there are more candidates :)

Aaah i get it now, thanks mate :)

not exactly like lemmy. It's more like ONE base of content they all share. But it's not like instance A only gives you interracial gay midget-porn, and instance B only farming-simulators and C only linux-apps :) But yes, you pay one of the providers and usually have it all. There's a chart somewhere to which one is backed by whom, and hence the best retention you could get. AFAIK Eweka is one of the root-providers (I use them and they have regularly cheap deals). For automated easy downloads you'd also need an indexer. There are free ones but they aren't offering API-acccess. You can get those very cheap to moderatly cheap. I pay like 20 bucks a year for two indexers (where one would really totally suffice). Kinda like the same you'd need for torrent too. A site to get your torrent from.

Exactly!

Oh yes, this one too of course!

Errr...I don't get it, someone cares to explain?

I really really dig the fuckaround/findout. It paints the try/catch with a more dreadful undertone and reeks of mystery.

It's just as old as the internet itself. Primary reason was communication. A gargantuan federated forum. The binary-part was just there but not that extensively used. Now it's the other way round (sadly). Communication is down, binaries are up. As to the legality: It's federated, worldwide. Some providers do take DMCAs, but (as with the rest of the net) it doesn't do much. Because first most pir8-content is obfuscated and pwd-protected. And second, the moment something was taken down, someone else re-ups it again :-) Benefits to torrent and debrid and all: Retention. So a thing from 10yrs back you can still get with absolute maximum speed your line can do (and your provider gives you ofc). Fuck seeders and upload-ratio and co. Just get it as fast as anything could be. I usually download with ca. 250mb/s. 100 parallel connections. Only some group's FTP can beat this. But they're not for the public.

As to legally paying: It's just a service that gives you access to something. like debrid. You can have usenet access just to communicate with people or download linux-distros or anything else legal. Also, even in my very restricted country, downloading is legal. Uploading is not.

I don't get your point. When they went into existence, it was a search-engine. It just did that and it did it very well. Nothing else compared slightly. No javascript, no tracking, no portal, no ads, no shit. just results.

"If not them, then someone else". Yes sure. If there's something to exploit, it will be exploited. People are shit. But we're talking about google :)

Ignore steam forums. They were always a horrible kid's playground. Since the term woke emerged, it's totally bonkers. They really go nuts these days when you can't choose man/woman but body type 1/body type 2. How could anyone give a damn about such things if the game does not suck? Like in kingdom come 2 where you could do a lot of things that finally lead to one gay scene. And then they complain about that. It's an RPG. Stop doing gay things if you don't like gay 😁