Google Play and F-Droid are both available

You’re probably better off using dedicated websites for each site you need to download videos from.

They are usually ridden with ads, but it’s not a problem if you use uBlock Origin or similar addons

GUYS, IT’S HAPPENING

Holy crap I did not know that! This is huge

It never went away

Axios is very good. Very dry journalism - almost crossing into news agency territory -, very fact-based, always mentioning the different positions on the matter at hand. They do talk about politics but you can just visit the other sections. They are especially big on tech stuff

EDIT: For how to get news, I use RSS. Inoreader in particular lets you subscribe to entire sites or just specific pages. It’s possibly the best piece of software I’ve ever tried

Podcasting uses RSS in general, yes!

I don’t know what client you’re using, but Inoreader usually finds the RSS feed even if the webpage does not link to it

YES

They don’t want a bad experience so they use shady websites to download music in the shittiest possibile quality? I don’t buy it.

People are just not able to afford what they want, that’s it

The instance is toast.ooo but there’s spam also coming from lemmynsfw.com

IDK, I just love the fact that this is basically implying that web3 is already dead

Some of them may not have a choice, though, if their internal rules say that they can’t be associated with porn. Also it’s not only payment processors, but also advertisers and, most importantly, investors. Imagine if all the stock holders, overnight, effectively found themselves investing in porn. Lots of them would be (or feel) obligated to sell their stock. Remember Amazon is an American company, and porn is not taken lightly in the US

It’s not that simple. Porn is a huge risk for a company, especially if it’s user-generated content. You have to police access against underage kids who want to watch that content, and also have an enormous team devoted to immediately take down CSAM.

Lots of payment processors and advertisers do not want to associate themselves with porn because there are too many PR risks. Ask Pornhub how difficult it is to be a porn company on the internet, they’ve had lots of thorny problems. Or look at Reddit and how it’s handling porn content before the IPO: they can’t outright ban it or they’ll lose users (e.g. Tumblr, another great example of what I’m talking about), so they are trying to hide it as much as possible.

Basically trying to monetize porn is not worth the headache. Last but not least, because there is so much free porn around. Risking so much to gain a few users that could go somewhere else in a whim is REALLY not worth it

Still awesome!

Turns out we actually did not need nor want to hear so much from other people.

They are illegal in most European countires

Omg I feel that. The oven in my apartment has touch controls. When I’m baking stuff with lots of moisture inside, water evaporates and is expelled though a vent JUST BELOW the touch controls. The condensation makes them completely unresponsive. Smh

Glad to be able to help! Have fun :)

That’s the joke