Weirdness. Anyway, kudos for being one of the few people actively supporting FOSS monetarily!

I almost got banned over there just for asking that

Huh. Why, what was the reasoning there?

Only in the BDSM subgenre

I’m not seeing the issue here

Why? Bitwarden has a free tier you don’t have to self host

But worse to me are their comments in that post calling the people responding “childish trolls in this community”. I do not think that this is appropriate for a moderator.

Funny, because that’s certainly how most of the responses sound like to me. OP was asking a reasonable question, and most of the responses there were nowhere near civil.

I’m a Discord-using LGBT ally, and I don’t know anybody who uses this (nor had I heard about it until now). You may be overestimating it’s reach / appeal.

I’m a techy, linux-driving, self-hosting guy. I’m using Discord for my club chat because there’s no other practical options. People who harp about moving off Discord seem like they’ve never considered user-friendliness in their considerations.

Cloudflare is free, and with a bunch of other services available

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Well it mentioned shredding the encryption keys, and I was combining that with full disk encryption.

This seems like a great way to stand up and accidentally brick my laptop

Read the dresden files, that’s pretty much its main conceit

Uh, genuine interest?

Are reverse engineering software and binary patches currently illegal?

You said ‘if people figure it out anyway’, so I was interested in an example where people are able to figure it out but not allowed to duplicate it

Can you provide some examples of software benefiting from IP protections like you mention?

If that’s your bar for accepting help you’re actively soliciting, you’re gonna have a bad time

I can understand that. It doesn’t help that the first communities, before the reddit exodus, were by and large (not all, but definitely a significant majority) tankies and right wingers who had been booted off the mainstream social media

People keep making this mistake of thinking of lemmy as a single entity. It’s not. It’s many, many communities. They’re all run by different people and the fact is, those who like to abuse their power are naturally the most likely to be the ones running these communities. Pay attention to what’s going on, filter the instances you participate in, and don’t expect everything to be hunky dory.