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You could use something like Cryptomator, but it's more focused around cloud. Veracrypt is still the go-to for offline encryption.

Video hosting/bandwidth is just too expensive to run long term. All big platforms are either barely making any profit after years operating or are still running into a negative. But since they have multi-billion corporations behind them they can affort it and get others benefits from having a big userbase to exploit.

There is !fireemblem@lemmy.world and https://lemmy.fromshado.ws instance seems to be focued on Fire Emblem.

Something like FreshRSS might work for what you want.

Don't disagree, but they have plenty of content and if you don't engage with anyone, it's fine.

IPTorrents or FileList are great general trackers that both have software. FileList has a very good retention of old uploads.

I don't think they store fingerprints. They only use MBID for metadata.

I just can't get used to Firefox render engine it just feels weird. And that's a deal breaker for me. Happy Vivaldi user.