I use them constantly on laptop with GNOME. It makes it easier to switch windows with touchpad. On desktop I don’t use them so often, because I forget about them.
It supported torrent for ages, but it has only one tracker that doesn’t really have very much content. Now qBitTorrent or something else supports it out of the box.
I2P is very slow, slower than Tor. Maybe after more people join, it will be faster. Last time I tried it was painfully slow to even load most eepsites.
I was using Flatpak and Toolbx exclusively until I discovered Nix. It’s much better than using those two.
I use Gitea as project hosting and personal wiki. I also host Nextcloud for files and news and Jellyfin for movies and music.
In this order.
If you don’t add any CA certificates to your system, use HTTPS-only mode and connect from your own client, there’s no easy way for them to see what you do on websites. They can only see what websites you’re visiting, packets and the timestamp. Using VPS will be the literally the same, except you have only one server and only you are using it, so you’re more fingerprintable.
Depends on your use case, for maximum online privacy you should use Tor Browser on Linux or TailsOS. If you want just to pirate, VPN is usually enough.
They defederated from shitjustworks and Lemmy.world. They left .ml federated.
They deleted my Reddit account for me long time ago, I’m ahead of all of you.