If you are on Windows, you already have a good antivirus program built in, and that is Windows Defender. Other than that, be sure to install uBlock Origin extension in your preferred browser - it not only eliminates ads, but also annoying pop-ups, embeds, trackers, malware sites and other annoying things on the internet. When you want to download something, and you're not sure if it's safe, scan the download link with VirusTotal.
There is Mastodon. You just have to get used to it.
I prefer not to damage my magazines in any way, at least for now.
Agreed. I was using TiviMate on my NVIDIA Shield TV when I still had an active IPTV subscription, and nothing comes close in terms of usability and ease of use. I wish legit IPTV providers could offer us a way to watch TV from them with all those apps.
PSP. I remember seeing, playing and enjoying games (particularly LittleBigPlanet and Burnout Dominator) on my then-friends' consoles multiple times in a few years, before finally getting my own in 2015.
I had no personal experience neither with iOS nor Apollo, but Wefwef feels so polished, so smooth, almost like it's a real app, that it's now one of my favorite apps altogether. It made me appreciate Lemmy even more.
The dev said it will work as before until new update will be released.
That's exactly what I'm using for downloading songs from Deezer. It's really good. Slider(dot)kz is also a good alternative.
I remember using SaveFrom for a few months after ClipConverter.cc banned downloading music and music videos from YouTube. However like you I then discovered youtube-dl (now yt-dlp) and I haven't even looked back since. It's truly the best out there.
I download music from Deezer, 90% of what I want is there. For the remaining 10% I use SoulSeek.
The thing is not every popular or moderately popular song is on any streaming site. I'm a fan of 90s and 00s trance music, and there are some notable songs that aren't available on any of the most popular paid services, or are available only in newer, re-recorded versions or remixes - some of them are available on Spotify, but not all. YouTube Music has such an advantage that you can listen not only to the songs uploaded by record labels, but also to countless additional songs available on YouTube, however most of the time they are in worse quality (AFAIK max audio bit rate in YT videos is 128 kbps). So while streaming services are now affordable and have very extensive audio library, they have some shortcomings that one can only fill with physical media or piracy.
I support this, but I think some Reddit communities will probably take years to rebuild, if most of their users won't be interested in going to Lemmy in the short term - and that's what looks to be the case for now in most non-tech communities. Also, I think those moving subreddits which could choose not to continue on Reddit should at least change their status from private to restricted AFTER the blackout, so the users could access archival, often valuable content, for example when searching on Google for answers to specific questions.
Of course. I don't remember what Reddit was in the beginning, but I imagine that it was similar to Lemmy instances now.
It will survive, yeah, maybe I'm overreacting. But I don't think it will the same place anymore. It will definitely be shittier.
One thing I'm concerned about Reddit's downfall
Hello. This is my first contact with Lemmy, and I'm happy to see that it's growing faster and faster. However there's one thing that's blocking me for now from completely abandoning Reddit after API changes.
There are thousands of various bigger and smaller communities on Reddit. Many of them are participating in the blackout, and more and more are deciding to stay blacked out indefinitely after recent CEO's memo leak. I was using Reddit for almost 7 years, and before the drama started it was one of my most viewed websites.
For 99,9% of the time spent on Reddit I was lurking and browsing small or small-to-medium sized subreddits - some of them for very specific content, some for various tech or non-tech related communities (like AI or emulation). While a good number of these subreddits already have alternatives on Fediverse, for now most of them are not very active, some of them even empty, and some content related to these communities is buried in larger, more general communities. Another number of subreddits whose doesn't have alternatives on Lemmy/Kbin have alternative communities on Discord, but on Discord it's somewhat hard to read live discussions, search options are limited, and some servers tend to be toxic - it's a messaging platform after all, not discussion and content website.
Don't get me wrong - as a 3rd party app user myself (Sync FTW) I completely despise planned Reddit API changes and support the blackout, but sometimes I fear that if many users from smaller Reddit communities decide to leave altogether, and if some of them which chose to participate in the blackout indefinitely will not return, then these communities which I watch will just disappear with no easy way to browse and search past content and discussion from them. That being said, Lemmy and Kbin are promising alternatives that shed light for the future, but I'm concerned that some smaller communities will never blow up on there, and will ultimately move to messaging platforms or stay a thing from the past.
There is one good thing though - seeing all those post about planned changes are finally convinced me to get more active on discussions I read, and I hope that Lemmy will appeal to me in this regard.
TL;DR: I fully support Reddit blackout and migration to Lemmy, but I fear that it may spell an end to some smaller and specific communities.