People were using VPN's and anonymous/temp email accounts to spam CSAM onto a number of communities.
The admins had to take measures both to protect their users (from having to see that material) and themselves (legally as how Lemmy works the images are stored on their servers in Germany).
Hannah Montana Linux
You never were.
I had this come up when I was using a locked down version of FF.
Basically what happened was the security settings were not allowing Twitch the access it required.
Once I went through and allowed access it worked fine.
This happened often with Sync for Reddit.
The dev would be away for a while then come back with a big update to functionality and a number of bugs fixed.
Lemmy itself is still not a mature platform and is a moving target when third party app devs are trying to keep up with the changes.
And if I recall correctly this is a side project for him so updates are not as regular as people expect.
The only thing you have to do is be a bed for kitty.
Anything else is no longer a concern for you.
Are you sure he didn't leave because he couldn't find the exit?
I had been expecting this.
Lemmy itself is still a work in progress and the new version apparently makes some major changes from the current version.
Sync is currently in a usable stable state so instead of squashing bugs in the current Sync version it was a better use of their dev time to work on a build for 0.19.
That's because laptop (and some desktop motherboard) manufacturers love to cut costs wherever they can so they end up using some weird non standard sound card from Billy Bob's discount computer parts because they know they can require the use of drivers to band aid over the shitty hardware with a software fix.
Then when using Linux it tends to either not work or have shit sound until some kind soul adds in a config file for the devices sound card.
As others have said there are a couple of options that may or may not work as Apple loves to make sure that their products only work with their software and a lot of them haven't been updated in years.
For ease of use you can install Rockbox on a good number of iPod devices, that will allow you to drag and drop music onto the device without having to use software to load the music.
If you are wanting an even easier option, you could sell your iPod and get one of the many different Digital audio player options that use microSD cards to store the music files allowing for ease of storage upgrades, ease of moving to a new device and being OS agnostic as they show up as a USB mass storage device.
I use a Fiio M7 as my daily driver with either a set of Jade audio EW1 TWS earphones or FiiO JH3 IEM's & I have an older Fiio X3 2gen connected up to a dock for playing music in my living room.
Do not expect things to work as they do in Windows.
While you can get most things done via a GUI option using the Terminal is much more powerful and gives more information.
This pertains mostly to Laptops and peripherals, but always do a quick Google search to check for any issues.
One of the big issues for people is sound, a lot of computer & parts makers like to use the cheapest no-name parts they can because Windows lets them require "drivers" aka software fixes for poor hardware whereas Linux tends to give unaltered output leading to complaints about sound quality.
You are not going to find software from Adobe, Microsoft office 365 etc running on Linux even using WINE.
Some games will not work on Linux even using the Proton compatibility software.
There is a lot of software made for Linux are made by devs who focus more on the under the hood performance than making the software GUI look pretty. So don't be put off by the looks of a lot of Linux software.
I highly recommend Using the Alternativeto website to (as the name implies) find alternatives to software you use on Windows.
Setup an external device be it an internal hard drive, external hard drive or NAS as a backup target for your files.
You can use Timeshift to backup the entire drive (and it can reload a chosen backup directly onto the drive), Lucky backup to sync specified folders (either one way or both ways) to your drives or as I do use both.
And backup before doing major updates.
I have Timeshift setup to backup the entire drive (including $home) to a separate internal HDD and Luckybackup set to backup my important folders to an external USB HDD.
As you are learning how to use and navigate you will have accidents that will require a full reinstall, don't fear this has happened to everyone else and why you backup your files so it's an annoyance instead of the end of the world.
People were using everything you are complaining about to spam CSAM onto a number of communities.
The admins had to take measures both to protect their users (from having to see that material) and themselves (legally as how Lemmy works the images are stored on their servers in Germany).