Use a VPN if you want to be safe. slsk is p2p. If you don’t want to pay for a VPN, there’s a lot of ways to get music via DDL.

Yeah I think I’ll try out a bunch and see what I like

I never had that problem with adblocking. It still works for me (Windows, Ublock, Firefox). The content on PeerTube isn’t on par with YouTube and there isn’t a financial incentive for the entertaining creators to move to PeerTube

Yeah apps are pretty necessary for me so its good to know that Mastodon has good ones. I get brain damage reading tweets so maybe Mastodon wouldn’t be so bad. I do like Lemmy though.

a federated bookmark manager

Not something I’d ever imagine there’s a use for but now I’m interested. Thanks!