Downright expedient on some days.

What a strange comment.

Definition # 4 is the applicable one here.

When multiple people politely point out that you’re wrong, perhaps digging in your heels and telling them to be better isn’t the right call.

Tidal-DL could rip Tidal tracks pretty reliably when I last used it. I ditched my Tidal sub when they split with Plex, so haven’t used it in 6 months or so. I know Spotify has lower quality, but I’ve got a .edu email so was able to subscribe for cheap. I mostly use it for music discovery, so actually listening to and ripping music from it is fairly rare.

Spotify rippers (they come and go like waves on a beach)

Real ones? Seems like most of them use Spotify to identify music then rip from elsewhere like youtube.

I use Zotify when I get to the “rip from Spotify” level, but would be happy to add another couple options if there’s more solid ones out there.

I don’t see those comments, so I’ll chalk that up to federation issues. My mistake.

You have no idea how much better your comment made me feel after having to re-read this post a handful of times to figure wtf was being complained about.

The first people here don’t seem to have difficulty.

I was the first person to comment here and I explicitly pointed out that I don’t like your writing style because I had difficulty parsing it.

Objectively, “Luigi did nothing wrong” could be defending what he allegedly did, but could also be supporting the idea that he’s been falsely accused.

I also agree with the mod saying your initial post didn’t fit this community given the written rules on the sidebar, without factoring any “unspoken rules” or whatever the fuck you’re babbling about.

As an aside, I really dislike your rambling writing style.

I’m nobody, and my opinion isn’t especially relevant. But since you asked, I think you’re wrong for the initial ban and having your last post removed was the right call by the mod here.

What are the odds there’s at least one reddit employee’s IP on the list?

To add to this, Bitwarden integrates with a few of them so you can automatically generate a unique email on the fly when creating an entry for a site. (docs link)

I use Fastmail and use my own domain for about 90% of stuff. Sites I don’t even want to have my domain get a random.gibberish@fastmail.com email autogenerated from the BW extension. It’s pretty convenient once all setup.

For literal one-time use, I’ve generally had good luck with 10minutemail. I’m not sure how much it gets flagged as spam right away these days, but the nice thing about it being free is you can always try and find out for a particular site.

I use Fastmail with my own domain. Not free, but worth it given how much I rely on my email/calendar. There’s a 30-day free trial before committing though, so you can kick the tires before deciding.

I’d fully support the notion of db0 nuking the occasional post on a whim, so long as it gets posted here as a sort of meta-humor way to blow off steam or just avoid having to deal with being reasonable all the time.

Specifically, try searching by ISBN (0684839563)

Seems like the way to go, especially with how Ada wound up thrown under the bus for the decision to move.

!carnivore@lemmy.world

Isn’t locked, and seems like if it was in the past it was done to solve a moderation problem.

!television@lemmy.world

Looks like this was consolidated into a similar smaller community in a way that the userbase isn’t complaining about.

These seem like totally unrelated, dissimilar situations and don’t do anything to indicate what happened in the OP is standard practice.

I think it fits. Mods could move to another instance, create a new community, post about it, etc. without fucking with the existing one.

Locking the posts on their way out seems like a spite move against all the people not wanting to transfer (a lot, based on the comments). They could jusy as easily hand the community over to new mods instead of killing it. Seems like it’s be better for the community and the fediverse in general and align better with what the community wants.

that bias could impact their administration of the site

If/when it does, post that here and it’ll fit in better.

(not in a negative way)

Debatable.

One of my best friends is a long-term vegan. He generally avoids telling people because he so strongly hates being lumped in with this crowd of asshats.

I agree, but software piracy isn’t stealing from anyone.

Stealing definitively requires depriving someone of their own stuff. Piracy is more akin to a massive crowdsourced library. We’re all just helping to share the burden of hosting costs.