DM the mods to fix channels. If they refuse, you’ll have to leave. Don’t give Discord any info. A community I was in moved to an alternative and it’s still there, right after Discord announced it would implement ID registrations.

Defender with Malwarebytes as already mentioned should be enough. What false positives do you get exactly?

Personally I have a Linux distro on my PC and don’t need AV software at the moment.

These people are called “tankies”. It’s communists who like militarism and imperialism, as long as it’s of their own flavor. The internet has many such “bunkers” where these people congregate. They unironically support the countries you mention, and they do not represent the entire left-wing community.

I’d argue that they aren’t the result of capitalist policies being shitty. Such communities have existed on the internet since the early 00s. It’s just their ideology.

Why are they on lemmy? My guess is that Reddit banned some of their communities for posting violent content (threats of violence etc.) so they moved to lemmy, which does not censor people to the degree Reddit does.

The .ml for lemmy.ml supposedly stands for “marxism leninism”.

Not just a US thing. EU is pushing for much more restrictive measures regarding mandatory ID registration. And it will be EU-wide for us. US will most likely be much better in that regard from 2027 onward, since only a few states seem to change things.

There are certain Linux distributions that come with all basics pre-installed and are designed to be convenient. All ubuntu derivatives, Mint, Pop_OS, Zorin etc. I know it because I use one and it’s just as convenient as Windows.

You can be sure these distributions will cause you no trouble because they are made by companies that put them in their computers or design them to be on pre-builts and therefore cannot be allowed to be difficult to use. For example, System76 developed Pop_OS to be used in their PCs. SteamOS is developed by Valve for the handheld console. These aren’t indie projects some hobbyists made.

For your programs, we now have flatpaks/snaps that make a program work even if it’s not developed specifically for your distribution. Valve developed Proton for its console, and it “translates” almost all games to Linux, including some games with anti-cheat. I have a library of 500+ games and they are all compatible. You can install any program with a click of a button, it’s just as easy as running an .exe file.