anyone who says that forgets how bad tv sucked back then
I mean you’d have to at least bring back video stores or something

maybe they could add a feature where users can set their own meta communities, like a custom collection from all the various instances

I’ve used cloudflare and quad9 for years, and there’s even a “private DNS” setting in certain versions of Android to enable encrypted DNS natively, without the need for an app. Even newer versions of Windows supports it, you just have to know where to look.

ffmpeg, if you don’t mind the command line… there’s only two options you really have to know for editing, -ss and -t , starting time and length, respectively… also don’t forget that first -i for input file name, output file name is always last
eg, ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:01:40 -t 00:05:00 output.mp4
that would clip out five minutes starting at a minute forty seconds in

Renegade BBSes -> IRC -> slashdot -> digg -> reddit -> imgur -> discord -> mastadon -> lemmy
with plenty of side quests along the way