You are absolutely right and I had not considered your second point, after all it is a free site and it would be hosting free stuff stupidly, but it wouldn't necessarily have to be a site hosted by someone, it could simply be a torrent index (although that would have to be hosted by someone else, but you won't need exabytes of space or unlimited bandwidth) where the users themselves share and host the file, it would make sense? probably not at all, but on torrent you will find those who share Ubuntu ISOs and music downloaded directly from Youtube, maybe someone did something like that with NexusMods.
I don't have the slightest problem creating accounts, my problem comes when I create an account and my inbox starts to fill up with spam, and it doesn't matter if I delete my account, they already have my email in their database, which they are probably going to share or sell to third parties. I'm not saying it's the case of Nexusmods, honestly it's the first time I use it in my life, but there are millions of websites, how can I trust one or the other? Simple, I don't, that's why I use temporary emails and email maskers.
From the beginning I assumed it wasn't possible but maybe someone knew something I didn't, like those pages (not sure if they still work) to download Steam Workshop files without a Steam account or without having the game at all. Or maybe there was a Kemono(dot)party style repository where users who have access to paid Patreons voluntarily upload the paid files there for everyone to enjoy.
Fucking thanks! I don't understand at all why but you're right! Simplelogin domain is not detected as 'invalid' and I can create an account without any problem!
I think on Reddit most mods were volunteers, those who were paid were the admins.
And so far I haven't encountered any problems with moderators personally although not long ago there was a problem with a community (c/shitposting) where some unscrupulous users started to upload child pornography (CP) (another term is used but I don't remember) in the comments as images and that sucked because Lemmy unlike Reddit has no automatic post deletion tool (like bots) or enough moderation tools (as I have read from some moderators) and you must consider that the instances are maintained by people like you and me without any legal backing, if I have an instance where I federated with you and someone uploads CP to your instance, that CP will be in my own instance and that can have serious legal consequences for everyone. and besides, since moderators are volunteers they can't spend all day checking every post and comment because they have a real life out there.
I find it difficult to give an opinion on this, on the one hand I consider that it should not be easy to be a moderator but on the other hand I remember cases of certain communities (r/JusticeServed) where the moderators were corrupt and accepted money in exchange for banning someone from the sub, or tried to hide certain posts that did not suit them, and that seems to me to be complete bullshit but not all subreddit's mods are like that and you can not judge like that.
I guess Lemmy's advantage in this case, is that because of the nature of the fediverse it is more difficult for that to happen, but it can happen.
I have never liked 4chan because I consider the lack of moderation to be a very very bad thing, but honestly I have never used it nor have I been attracted to it, on the other hand, I used Reddit for many years and I consider it to be ok (leaving aside the API abuse and training AI with your users posts), but I'm on Lemmy because I like the open source philosophy and I tend to use exclusively open source software, and since Lemmy is an open source project I really enjoy being here. I always wanted to use Mastodon but as I said, I don't like Twitter, so Lemmy is my paradise.
I always wanted to be in the fediverse but I didn't like Mastodon at all and Lemmy (or his alternatives) didn't have almost no users... When the massive migration of users from Reddit to Lemmy happened, I took advantage of it and I've been here ever since (using other accounts).
What do you mean by special on screen keyboard? I usually just zoom out the screen (making a pinching gesture with the fingers) and that works for me.