Funnily during my college, one of our lecturer is “cool” by adding some funny memes on certain hard part of lecture. Can say it helps for some people to remember as learning can be fun too and to keep everyone relaxed.

But yes if you’re trying to meme so hard with 10 years old of meme, and then the audience does not understand them, it does feels awkward for some people, like who does rage comic panel in 2023?

Sadly for that matter it is more to the legal area.

For identity they can catch you either from email or the payment info. For email you can make one easily, but for payment search a provider that accept virtual (credit) card, or get something that accept crypto wallet.

Yeah, online exposure can point you sooner or later depending how motivated the party that seek you.

Internet is really wide and open if you know direction :)

Even libgen (Library Genesis) still provide IRC as one of option to download ebook from their catalog.

FMHY and Internet Archive is a good entry point if you want to search anything.

I’ll explain it in layman’s terms…

• There is always a price (inconvenience) for secure-ness in online world.
• There’s 2 option to host a forum,
  1. You can use service like forum hoster or rent a VPS (so you can setup your own server although not self-hosting).
  2. Self-host yourself (this one a bit tricky if you aren’t prepared).
• Learn some good basic OpSec habit (eg. Never use same password, Never put your personal detail in your active directory especially on your site source document, use 2FA and so on).
• Learn to spot a phising or malicious link and never to randomly click random link in an email (in times when someone tried to social engineering you).
• Use reputable service provider if you are not going to self-host yourself.
• If you happen to self-host, make sure to check your open ports and secure them. Bots always probing any site in the world!
• For some reason if you’re going to run sketchy stuff, never use your real credential. This point may not apply on your region as it depends on your local law.

Maybe in my message seems to focus solely on discord for putting the blame… The problem nowadays is that mostly these “devs” share/upload/host their releases in Discord which means you do use Discord’s CDN to host their files. Another common complaint of these practices is that you need to join their server in order to just download relevant files which makes it infuriating if you stumbles across these practices often. For example I joined 8 different discord servers just to download a software/binary/release, why can’t just put the release on something like Mediafire, Google Drive, Megaupload or perhaps sourceforge.

I do understand Discord is communication platform but most of time some people are too lazy to manage stuff so what happen is that everything is hosted in single place as such Discord.

I’m pretty sure most of people who mainly use discord as their main social apps probably never touched forum-based internet.

Hosting your own forum is also better as you (the owner of the site) can still retrieve the msgs as long as you still have the access to the host server (so you can back them up in case shutting down, then going to resurfacing later).

Not to mention using discord is already risking yourself because of their shitty policy.

As someone who mostly lurking back in reddit, lemmy sort of forces me to engage (give back) in community. While at first I felt weird, it grow on me to contribute for discussion and hopefully I can start my own post in a community lol.

Imo this kind stuff probably because these “dev” having safe space on those discord servers rather than using something properly setup site/forum.

Heck you can make your own documentation using github/gitlab built in wiki or if you want something fancier, setup a site using JAMstack/static site generator, pick suitable theme then use gh page to host it.

I even more hate this stuff when the files is gated inside discord server, dude out of all possible file hosting services why the heck you would use discord?

Nightcore taking me back in time, back then it is kind of “easy” to find nightcore edit on youtube. Although I don’t listen on those edit to me it is relic from the past :p

As much as I find it true however this more likely happen on popular/pop songs, as I never played easy-to-listen-modern-popular genre and earliest I find these stuffs around 2021 when I had to play this “already mixed playlist” for our workshop stereo.

I accept that internet has changed maybe because i’m observant ever since I jumped into internet back in early 2000s :)

I like how Nine Inch Nail poster stuck there like a sore thumb.

As a blink-182 fan, growing older is a must, but growing up is optional ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)