Good idea. They took their site to a dumpster fire and blocked us all from the API, they don’t get to have any value I might have accidentally contributed

Thank you for taking the time writing all this up for me. That makes me glad I asked because most info I was finding with google-foo was telling me to set up port forwarding the old way with my router and not really doing a good job of laying out how and why it works to begin with. After having switched from Tribbler to a client that has uPNP, now I think I understand why I’m struggling with it less. I’m unsure if my Soulseek is connected and sending data right but this gives me some better ideas of how to find out.

I’ve been trying to understand port forwarding since I keep seeing that I need to set it up for my torrent client to work reliably. But I read that it sends your traffic “outside” of your VPN encryption. Doesn’t it kind of defeat the purpose or am I understanding it wrong?

about to go postal rn on god frfr

You’re right. I’m pretty sure now that I may have even asked this all before but lost it because I have goldfish memory.

That is pretty dark. I was hoping the admin would take people’s safety a little more seriously but I guess it’s going to be on us to make sure word gets around a lot more

I just had a realization. A lot of content on the fediverse that we interact with is region specific. A user could have no identifying info in their comments or profile but still get doxxed because they upvoted a post associated with things like their job, their home state, places they frequent, medical conditions.

Do you suppose this got posted today because there is a doxxing project happening right now on 4chan?

Good to know. I keep jumping between instances during outages and I’m worried in upvoting stuff twice