Pirate everything. Pirate streams, torrents, whatever.

Pirate. Everything.

*unless it’s an independent artist of some sort. then, just buy some merch from them or something.

It’s the interface more than the technology.

I’m a new user who’s not all that familiar with federated social media. But, I think if this instance looked and acted as much like Reddit as possible, most new users would be barely aware of federation.