Why is it a controversial opinion? Mailspring is a great email client. I’ve been using it for a year now.

And for rating music albumoftheyear.org which for me is superior to RYM

Thanks, I Hate It

Those are only cosmetic and their meant to give something to supporters. Creators don’t hide that servers are expensive and supporters are appreciated.

True! I never had the gut to create subreddit but on Lemmy I’ve created community on my first day

VPNs don’t make things safer. You need to use reliable trackers like 1337x. VPNs can hide your traffic from your ISP. If you’re living in some smaller country you might get await with seeding without VPN and without getting notified by your ISP.