Thanks for the correction. 👍

While CBS isn’t as much of a propaganda mill as Fox News or Newsmax yet, there’s a few reasons why a source such as NPR, BBC, ABC, NBC, or Reuters is preferable whenever possible:

• In 2024, Paramount (the owner of CBS) announced its intention to merge with Skydance, a media company majority-owned by David and Larry Ellison, right-wing Trump supporters.

• After the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Trump sued Paramount, claiming that the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris intentionally cast her in a favorable light with the goal of influencing the election (despite it being no different to how they had edited candidate interviews for prior elections). To ensure the merger would be approved under the second Trump administration, Paramount paid Trump $16 million. When Steven Colbert called out the settlement as being a bribe on his show, CBS cancelled The Colbert Report The Late Show in retaliation.

• In October 2025, Paramount Skydance bought the newsletter of right-wing journalist Bari Weiss for $150 million as a talent acquisition, installing her as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News with the goal of making CBS more right-wing.

• In December, she delayed the release of a 60 Minutes episode about the mega prison in El Salvador for the purpose of adding more pro-Trump content to it. She has also pushed for content at the network to be more “balanced” by including more pro-government content, such as by asking for the 60 Minutes episode on the Minnesota ICE raids to contain more depictions of protestor violence. Additional details on her tenure at the network are listed with sources in her Wikipedia article.

When also accounting for firings at CBS of journalists not willing to adjust their reporting, it’s a clear sign that the network’s output is being deliberately manipulated to expand right-wing influence. As Paramount Skydance is about to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN will also be at risk of reporting interference in favor of Trump.

Alternative to CBS.

If violently storming federal buildings is worthy of a pardon, why would they need extra security? /s

I block Lemmy.ml, so I wouldn’t create an account on there anyhow. While I think most new users would be better suited on an instance that defederates from Lemmygrad and Hexbear, the substantial userbase of lemmy.ml makes it better to block it instead so that its users can still interact in non-.ml communities and avoid splintering the Threadiverse needlessly.

In any case, what’s most important is not focusing on what makes Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin better or worse than each other, but how to make them all collectively better and make every effort to recruit as many new users from Reddit as possible. Most Redditors won’t join, but even 0.01% of them doing so (44,380 users) would double the size of the Threadiverse.

As I was running multiple Real-Debrid accounts for relatives, a side benefit of switching was that Torbox and Premiumize allow simultaneous connections, removing the need for multiple accounts. Went with the basic Torbox account as a test, but if there’s anything I can’t find I might get the higher one for the convenience of usenet access. 🤔

As most users (myself included) would rather join an established instance than spin up their own, ultimately I think whichever platform has the least friction for migrating Redditors is best.

Different people might prefer one or the other for different reasons, so as long as both can coexist and hopefully gradually adopt feature parity, the main focus should be growing the Threadiverse as a whole at the expense of Reddit.

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While there are many good differences that Piefed implements, its heavy-handed use of built-in content blocks is concerning. Arguments have been made that such features are merely a default option that can be changed by other instances, but aside from the dominance of piefed.social, many instance owners are unlikely to change most default settings.

Organizers billed the fair as “a modern-day World’s Fair celebrating the people, traditions, innovations, and spirit that make America the greatest nation on Earth.”

The World Expo is meant to celebrate international cultures and diversity; turning it into a U.S.-only event reeks of unhealthy nationalism and propaganda.

Debrid services are generally cheaper than VPN services and effectively serve the same purpose by making it so the user isn’t torrenting content, while having a backup of the data saved to the Debrid cache in case there aren’t enough seeders at any given moment.

Real-Debrid and a couple other Debrid providers are now actively complying with DMCA takedown requests, so lots of content will simply say that it was taken down due to such a request. Here’s what appears if you find something that’s impacted:

Most Lemmy instances are not pro-tankie.

Here’s a comprehensive guide. It’s a bit wordy, so if there’s anything confusing about it I’d be glad to help clarify. 👍

Real-Debrid started blocking content, so I’ve been testing Torbox instead and it seems to be working better.

After they’ve already raised their own prices; now they’re just double dipping.

The problem with even the slightest notion of violence is that then they have a convenient way to vilify their opponents; just look at the outcome of the Prarieland shooting trial.

Hopefully Chinese firms recognize the gap in the market and increase their capacity.

“Government devices typically include preinstalled apps that provide value to government employees’ day-to-day work.”

They should go back to doing that instead then.

Sending even more traffic through Cloudflare’s servers doesn’t sound very private.