Regardless of whether your ISP is leveraging their ownership of your router to violate your privacy, they are using it to exploit you financially. Owning your own equipment is always going to save you money compared to what an ISP will charge you in rent.

There isn’t really any reason to think the Fediverse won’t be used for AI training, if it isn’t already. Everything is in the open here, it’s easy enough to scrape all the data.

Eventually the reddit thread would probably balance out, and incorrect information should get downvoted and replaced by corrections from people who know better.

This seems optimistic.

Yes, I only use it via syncthing-fork so this is a distinction without a difference to me.

Not sure if I qualify as extra paranoid but this whole situation feels very sketchy and has me reconsidering my use of syncthing. Making significant changes like this without any explanation is extremely bad practice.

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Kagi has a “Fediverse Forums” lens.

That seemed like it worked for me but then it happened again eventually.

You might be thinking of lemmygrad or lemmyworld, there’s a lot of lemmynames around these days :)

EEE is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Threads is a new meta/Facebook/Instagram app that’s potentially going to eventually support the activitypub protocol which is used by Lemmy, Mastodon, and other fediverse apps.

Beehaw is not defederated from lemmynsfw.