Kind of late yes ๐
Tap and hold the lemmy id of the user you want to DM such as @ObsidianFlux@fedinsfw.app and then you will see a "Send message" button.
No thank you, we'll do it ourselves.
They have invite forums.
How do they bypass premium links? I've always been curios about how they manage to do it. The only way I can think about is downloading from rapidgator and hosting it themselves.
How will you escape $var usage in scripts though :P
Maybe try xdcc? You might have wait times of you leech a huge amount, but speeds are usually fast and no ads and b.s. , but you might get mislabelled content at times.
There's a list over here of yt-dlp frontends https://fmhy.net/social-media-tools#youtube-downloaders , pick one.
Wait I thought the whole point of OP trying to open ports was being connectable to people who are behind NAT.