Twitter is more of a formal place when it involves organizations, so you can tell easily if you can deal with these things there. From my experience, Facebook is also similar.
And about Discord, individuals and some times even organizations point to there, so that’s a reassurance. Also you could try commenting (politely) in their public posts about your issue, indicating you need help. And worst comes worse, if your country has an equivalent to the Brazilian site “Reclame Aqui”, a site for registering issues in services that even companies started paying attention to, you could comment there.
Also I don’t know why you think you couldn’t. If anything, they seem to refuse communication, and in due process the accused can defend oneself, so you’d be looking for ways to do so.

Dunno your region, but Registro.br’s domains are rather cheap imo. However, I need to check again, but afaik it’s only for people with CPF or CNPJ, the Brazilian equivalents of person and company identification numbers.

Reiterating, you can never truly known if you don’t try.

Can’t truly know without trying. And in case it improves your hopes, I’ve seen cases of people being helped respectively by Steam’s owner and Xbox’s CEO directly just by finding the right emails and asking politely and orderly.

Dunno for Reddit specifically, but I’ve seen companies, staffers and related responding on Discord, Twitter, Facebook and directly through email. Also yet to test, but I’ve seen some with presence on Bluesky too.

Some times relevant people, or even official accounts, have presence in other services. That’s what I meant about finding someone from there to request help.

I’d suggest escalating the issue if you must get your account back. See if you can find a moderator, administrator, staffer, etc., willing to lend you an ear.

Otherwise, I’d suggest looking for other forums where you can participate in, including here in the fediverse.

Money is a consequence of power. And if money is demonized, people forget to look at those hoarding power instead.

The reason might not even be monetary, given their AI training partnership. keeping an eye on you

From my experience, with VPN on, the block triggers when I run too many requests at once, e.g. RSS feeds updating. Haven’t logged to my account in some 2 years now and even if I did, they say it’s banned (but also according to them, I can recover it? Not bothering though), so being logged in/out may not be an absolute reason for time out.

Dunno how to train a database model or however it’s called, but using Termux + Ollama + qwen2.5:3b, it helps as much as I’d expect for a (to my knowledge) non commercial tool. Also since you can pull other models/whatever, maybe you can provide your own too.

Never tested Grayjay on an as old of a system, but maybe try it with the community-made Jellyfin plugin?

Usually that’s an initial scare. People should observe the tendency, which should reflect the forum’s momentum, which could take a few days.

I study solutions given for some hours. If I can’t get their logic, I put them aside and go back in a few days, often after seeing something unrelated that helps understanding the topic I was stuck at. That I dunno if has a name, but I like to call it “additive learning”.

Also sudying =/= applying the solution

I made the community pretty open-ended, so I guess both count.

Also, on using alternatives being a type of deshittification, I’d say even that with competition around, the original or more prevalent tool needs to seek ways to be better as to not lose market share.

Edit: added a third question to the description, so I think it should be clearer

I second everyone donating a little would keep their favorite projects healthy. As a guy I follow says, the small donation is the one that didn’t come.

Also answering your question, I usually pay the minimum tier to not get stretched thin and go broke. 🥲

Heroic has a log tab in the settings iirc. Also this same log is generated when running from the terminal. You can launch them from Wine or forks, or through steam steam://launch/appid_goes_here/Dialog

Also, if you’d be interested and/or you have games outside of Steam, Heroic Launcher has a compatibility layer manager that lets you install and swap around different versions (and forks) of Wine. Only installs to Heroic though, not system-wide or directly to Steam (though you can add external games to Heroic).

Not all too knowledgeable about Wine myself, but I’d imagine that like Windows, Wine must have its elements so tied together that updating something could potentially break something else. So on a hypothetical example, if you update how Wine interprets Vulkan API calls, you could end up breaking how it interpret Direct3D calls, as, to my knowledge, both do more or less the same thing, except Direct3D is much older.

RSS’s a big for me and had been considering originally using Mastodon + RSS Parrot. But though I don’t like the UI of Friendica, its native tracker bot function sounds rather interesting. 👀

Thinking here, the site engine I’d pick for daily use would probably be Mbin. But as I hear it is a bit of a processing hog, running it and a Friendica instance on the same device would maybe be too much for the device, so maybe I should buy another Raspberry Pi or some other SBC for it.