At least with Proton VPN, it seems that some VPN servers are blocked while others aren’t. Trying with one server worked, while another resulted in a 403 Forbidden error.

Seems like the solution is to just change VPN servers until you find one with an IP that isn’t blocked. Otherwise, the Torrentio configuration page shows the following message, and Torrentio itself can’t be used in Stremio:

If you use Torrentio with Stremio, Torrentio blocks VPNs, though I don’t know why a VPN block would be impacting one platform but not another.

Because it’s still officially called the Department of Defense; only Congress can rename it.

More broadly, it illustrates the administration’s use of illegal boat strikes and regime change as foreign policy tools.

Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.

The Iran regime is despicable, but Axios shouldn’t be reporting on Trump’s illegal regime change efforts as a fait accompli.

Not sure how; it’s also not by defederation date, otherwise feddit.org would be at or near the bottom of the list for dbzer0.

The best tool I know of is the Federation Checker, but something like it should definitely should be built into clients.

Notably, Beehaw is defederated from .world and sh.itjust.works, while dbzer0, quokk.au, and anarchist.nexus are defederated from feddit.org.

The Bay of Piglets?

Agreed; Discord is trying to lull people into a false sense of security as a means of convincing them to stay, in the same manner that Reddit gave limited API access to apps like RedReader to stem the tide of users leaving for platforms like Lemmy.

Beyond age verification, if Discord is scanning a user’s messaging history to determine what their age is, one can only imagine all the other data valuable to data brokers that they are extracting from it too.

“Too late” isn’t even relevant anyway, they’re still doing it, so everyone should still be leaving.

Alternative to CBS.

The crash over the weekend had no connection to the shooting last March.

Press X to Doubt.

There’s websites with paywalls that even Bypass Paywalls Clean can’t bypass. In cases that it can, it sometimes just fetches the article contents from archive.today.

That doesn’t mean an alternative shouldn’t be found, but we also shouldn’t pretend that nothing is being lost by losing access to unpaywalled sources. For practical purposes, a paywalled source means no source for most readers, unless a non-paywalled alternative can be found to replace it.

While archive.org is good and more trustworthy than archive.is, it isn’t as useful for bypassing paywalls.