No, there are plenty of ways to buy digital only media, where you store it on your own drives.

I have a NAS full of media that I own that I bought. None of it physical.

Or, you know, buy media you can store on your own devices.

How fuckin childish.

Are you paying anything for this service? No. It has costs to maintain while they’re shouldering that on their own and giving you this service for free.

Get over yourself. The entire point of the fediverse is that anyone can host an instance. You can spin up a little free instance yourself and federate or defederate/block anything you see fit.

Why don’t you? I’m gonna guess because you want a low effort, free service to get your scrolling fix. In which case, they’re right. Go to a different instance that suits your values more. If you want an instance that won’t defederate or block others unless absolutely necessary, go join Lemm.ee. They federate with basically everyone and don’t block hardly anything.

And, Lemmy world is federated with them. So you won’t lose a single thing here if you move there.

Why are leftists supporting Putin?

There’s nothing “left” about him at all. He’s largely the reason for the oligarchy in Russia with the wealthy controlling everything through private enterprise.