Genuine question, what negative effects are corps having on the Linux ecosystem? I've also been daily driving Linux for over a decade and it honestly feels pretty similar now to how it did 10 years ago.
Just quickly skimming the article you linked, I'm not seeing evidence that wikipedia is "shit", just that there have been many attempts by governments and other powerful people to influence its content, which shouldn't be surprising to anyone given how popular it is. Are there examples you could point to of those attempts being successful? (Including particular examples you want to highlight in that article; again I only skimmed it on a small screen.)
It also seems strange to link to a wikipedia article to support the claim that wikipedia is shit.
It's originally a meme about eating 30 olives for dinner.
I haven't read the article and I'm not saying you're wrong, but in general plant foods are known to have less environmental impact than animal products because animals are higher on the food chain, and it takes more energy to raise an animal for consumption (including the resources to grow food for the animal) than to just grow plants and consume them directly.
Can't you just bind qbittorrent to the VPN?
How does the topic consolidation work, exactly? Does it only consolidate cross-posts, or does it also consolidate all posts from communities that have exactly the same name? The only documentation I can find is at https://join.piefed.social/features/ which just says:
Consolidated Comments – View all comments from multiple related posts on one page (example).
Idk, I find it pretty informative.