Edge isn't that bad of a browser. I don't appreciate the hate people sling at it without even trying it. It's seriously becoming a better browser than Firefox.

Glad to see that Lemmygrad is on the blocklist.

I don't know how to compile

Literally run make. It's not that hard.

The worst part is that the FTC's "punishment" does virtually nothing to stop this from happening again.

There's a thread about this on HN which may be worth checking out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146062

The concern about privacy is definitely valid, but I'm not as worried about that stuff as I care more that it works than anything else.

uBlock Origin definitely. I use KeePassXC's browser extension, but if you're using Bitwarden already then you're probably fine on that.

My search engine of choice is SearX, as DuckDuckGo's results are just a frontend for Bing, i.e. not favorable to me.

Looking good so far. Last time I looked at Lemmy, it wasn't so good. Hopefully this time will be a much better experience!

I was referring more to the community. I remember most, if not all, of the listed instances being incredibly left wing. Not that I have a huge problem with that by itself, but I believe anyone should be able to get their opinions out there. Or, it could be that the userbase of Lemmy just happens to fall under those parameters.