Thanks for the question. So Lemmy does support downvotes but I’ve decided to disable them on this instance. The reason is just that I don’t like seeing downvotes and I don’t really see the point in them. I think rule-breaking content should be reported and outside of that what people usually do is use downvotes to signal that they disagree with someone. I saw a good discussion on this elsewhere on Lemmy not that long ago but for now I’d rather keep them disabled unless there is a really good reason.

Hey OP, a lot of people are suggesting psilocybin or other psychedelics. If you’re interested you can ask questions about that in the !magic@wizanons.dev community. I moderate it but there are psychonauts there that know about this stuff who are friendly and helpful.

100% agree with this. Ever since getting into shrooms the world has become so much more alive and I feel far better about life in general. I run a community for magic and mysticism if anyone is interested called !magic@wizanons.dev which focuses on this type of discussion. Anyone is welcome to join the discussion or ask questions.

Oh I’m not worried at all. We’ll grow slowly but I’m just excited to experience it along the way too. I should have required applications before this happened but I wanted to make it easy for new folks to get in.

A good thing about this instance is that we’re federated with everyone and so we can freely access anybody’s instance. Large instances like beehaw have deferated now with other people so their users are unable to view or interact with content on those instances.

I’ll try to keep us open with everyone, which was one of my concerns with the bots. They could misbehave on other instances and make us look bad.

Anyway, small instances are fun too for those reasons. I continue to mention our communities every once in a while on other platforms so we can gradually grow as well.

This is hilarious. Thank you hahahahah.

So no, i2p won’t interact with the clearnet at all. So it doesn’t help with access to clearnet sites that are geoblocked. I never used VPNs for geoblocking specifically, just for torrenting, so this wasn’t in my list of use cases.

It makes sense sticking with a VPN if you really need to access a site that is blocked in your country. Or you could use Tor for that, but Tor has its own issues.

Also I’m still not familiar enough with I2P to know if it’s vulnerable to hostile takeover. It IS a completely different protocol from Tor though, so my guess would be it doesn’t have that same issue.

You don’t need to route all traffic, just the traffic from your bittorrent client.

Download speeds have improved significantly as there are more people on there seeding than ever.

i2p is significantly better than a proxy, you jump through multiple hosts/tunnels before reaching the service.

Also it isn’t all network traffic at all, just services connecting through i2p like a web browser you have setup to use it.

Ebikes are definitely the answer. Much easier to ride up hills and very accessible for regular people to start riding. Plus they are significantly cheaper than cars when you account for insurance and registration and maintenance, etc.

Hi! Jerboa is the best Android app currently as far as I know and that is what I use myself. I believe most of the community uses it. For iOS recommendations you might want to check out or subscribe to other communities like !technology@beehaw.org. You can subscribe to it using your current account too since lemmy is connected to everything.