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  • Reddit is so rigid about ban evasions that you could say it never forgets. Best I could suggest you already did, to make an appeal, so now all you can do is wait. But since I haven’t heard of anyone recovering theirs, I’d not hold my breath to have a solution any year soon (intentionally swapped “time” for “year”).

    And while not ideal, I’d suggest using RSS-tracking bots here on the fediverse to follow subreddits (every subreddit has an RSS feed), and comment on the bot’s posts instead. Would also tackle the concern from Ani.Social’s administration of such bots having too little engagement to justify their presence now that the fediverse has a healthy active userbase.















  • My PS3’s too new to support CFW so never got to check, but maybe CFW (not HEN) allows removing unwanted additions? Or maybe even downgrade the system version?

    Alternatively, maybe dump your games with the PS3 and play on an emulator on PC if you got the option.


    More generally for gaming, DRM-free’s usually the least enshittified/privacy-friendly imo, as once you downloaded the installer, zip, etc., the game doesn’t care where it came from.

    The biggest store for DRM-free stuff is GOG, though you’ll quickly learn they’re great at making PR disasters if you can live with that. And for platforms like GOG, Itch.io and Steam, there are tools for downloading through the terminal that are as isolated as they get. For the 3 platforms, they’re gogrepoc, itch-dl and SteamCMD, the last one official and the other two leveraging APIs.

    And for Stean specifically though, do mind DRM’s a hit or a miss, and some times both. Also, their Linux version of SteamCMD needs to be installed system-wide, so I’d suggest getting the Windows version and running through a VM and/or Wine, memorizing the syntax for downloading builds from specific systems.

    And uf you must use a launcher, Heroic Launcher abd Playnite are pretty good, neither official products so neither following the design choices of the platforms they support.






  • Greetings! Hope you like your stay!

    If you’d like to also explore options, there’s Mastodon for followinf Twitter-like posts (and also PixelFed, NeoDB, WordPress, etc.), Friendica and Mbin for following both Twitter and Reddit-like posts, and PieFed as a direct alternative to Lemmy specifically.

    And tip, Lemmy has a native per-post, post-hiding feature, at the 3 dots of a given post. Mastodon has too, and most softwares I’ve tested work well with Ublock Origin filters and/or scripts for hiding posts (e.g. if liked/disliked).