There’s probably a FOSS app that does the same thing without ads and tracking

A VPN is enough for torrenting, as long as the VPN provider isn’t logging. I personally use AirVPN because they have port-forwarding but I’ve used Mullvad before. I also live in Germany and I’ve never gotten in trouble.

The guide you linked seems a little outdated, Jackett has been replaced by Prowlarr, which is there to have a central location to manage your trackers. If you plan to use Jellyfin, you should also use Jellyseer instead if Overseer. The *arr services are the ones that actually search for the files to download by using the trackers you set up in Prowlarr. You don’t need all the *arr services, I only have Sonarr and Radarr, which are for shows and movies respectively. I also have Bazarr for subtitles. AdguardHome is only for ad-blocking, might be useful to you but isn’t needed. Idk why that’s even in the guide. Flaresolverr is something I’ve never heard about and I don’t use it, so I can’t tell you anything about that. Heimdall is something I don’t need because I use YunoHost, which has a dashboard already but it might be useful to you.

There is !opensignups@lemmy.ml and !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I think he meant the application GNOME Software. Only valid point, I would like to be able to install or at least update my arch packages through GNOME Software like I do with flatpaks. Doesn’t have anything to do with the way Arch works tho, it’s just that no one has made a plugin yet that allows this.

You don’t even need GrapheneOS for that, I’m using LineageOS and can turn off internet access for apps

What does that have to do with anything?

Forgejo is a soft fork of Gitea, not the other way around

I think they aren’t the ones who made the fork tho but just the ones with the most resources out of everyone working on the project. Correct me if I’m wrong.

That’s why the fork Forgejo was made. Codeberg uses that fork as well.

Definitely agree on the UI part. The UI of Gitea/Forgejo is very intuitive and easy to understand. When you go to a repository you just have the tabs to go to issues etc. and you can always see those at the top. The first time I used GitLab, I found it very unintuitive. There were 2 sidebars on the left side with their respective buttons right on top of each other. Issues and stuff are also in the sidebar, so I couldn’t find them immediately.

What about that could possibly be illegal?

Why does that matter? It doesn’t make a difference

Why does it matter where it’s based?

I think this is for new accounts only, if you already have an account, your E-Mail will already be verified

Codeberg also uses Forgejo

Your data is only a few kilobytes anyway so it doesn’t make a difference

You don’t need root for it, it’s in the app info page

They’re probably getting personal data for advertising like Google does, right?

Didn’t know they’re working on implementing that, sounds like a very good change. I noticed that smaller communities kinda get “drowned out” by bigger ones as well.

Can you use your own domain there?