Have strong opinions, but I welcome any civil fact-based disscussion.
Their stance if someone is interested https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079
They basically won’t do anything preemptively.
At the top menu bar there should be Create Community
button or you can go to the direct link. If you don’t see it then you instance has probably disabled the functionality.
A feature I found particularly interesting is the ability to view community posts which I haven’t seen in any other frontends.
Invidious supports community posts.
I don’t know the specifcs, but there are strict rules and requirements on how the data has to be stored if you process any of it, then there is complience issues with laws like GDPR and you have to be a registered entity as far as I know. It’s just too much legal paperwork for most FOSS projects.
Top comment made me smile
You are unlikely to find FOSS alternative that is not for cryptocurrencies as the regulations around credit card data processing makes it hard.
Check out similar post https://lemmy.ml/post/1442545
Proton with paid plans supports it or Windscribe.
Functionality wise yes, but it’s visible in the UI and frontpage and that can be disabled/removed .
Adding add-on makes you more fingerprintable, not less.
All of the crypo crap can be turned off in settings.
Brave might have started as a basic Chromium fork, but the various privacy/security features they added do make them standout now.
Their stance is here https://vlemmy.net/comment/639289