Yes, this. You can. But you probably shouldn’t.

It’s a sad day for the internet when Cloudflare gets to be the good guy.

No, I’m not. I was mostly just using them for email.

Five minutes late once? I’d be annoyed but I wouldn’t think about it again.

Five minutes late, twice in a row? I’d ask what’s going on.

Five minutes late, thrice in a row? I wouldn’t go back. There’s plenty of trainers out there.

Tell me you didn’t read the post without telling me you didn’t read the post :)

I’m so glad I’m letting my Proton subscription lapse when it runs out. I want away from that ridiculous mess of enshittification.

As online spaces start to demand I dox myself, I will remove myself from those online spaces (see: Reddit). If that means I ultimately leave the internet as a whole, then so be it.

What’s with that weird receptacle the contraption’s plugged into?

Lemmy didn’t try to force me to dox myself for “age verification”.

There seems to be a misunderstanding. There is no central moderation here, merely what individual people will put up with, and what they won’t. If, for example, one community decides they won’t tolerate strawmanning and sealioning, they can show anyone who does those things the door. But, unlike Twitter, you cannot be entirely banned off the platform, because there’s always the option to spin up your own instance and federate with other instances willing to do so.

Yes, I’m holding off on starting over until that comes out, too. :)

I realised long ago that the human brain is not capable of handling everything that’s happening all around the world, all the time. I’m selective about what media I consume and I make extensive use of blocklists for things that aren’t my fight.

I got back into Shapez 2 recently and getting the factory flowing has been really fun. I like that you don’t have to try and figure out how to cram everything into a tiny space, you can take as much room as you like to make well-designed factories.

(I have absolutely no idea how to even start to build a Make Anything Machine though)

Moreso!

As others have said, the best way to do this is to use a platform that has good block list features (most Fediverse platforms qualify), and then curate your block list. You can block users, communities, and instances you don’t wish to see here on Lemmy. Mastodon might be for you, because you can also block keywords (Mastodon and Lemmy will happily talk to each other, so you can subscribe to Lemmy communities from a normal Mastodon account and post simply by mentioning the community, or comment by replying to an existing post).

Unfortunately they require “proof of liveness”, you have to open your mouth or tilt your head or whatever. There are ways around it but I too have nuked my Reddit account and returned to Lemmy today.

One other thing to try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper (presumably also available for other browsers). Then hold shift while you reload the page, and play the media. Chances are extremely good the addon will catch it and start dancing in your toolbar. Open the addon, click the file you want to download, and it should just download.