I don’t even need to use a VPN to be forced to login…

That was not the true real silk road. Most likely silk road 2. The original was shutdown in 2013

If you are talking about the silkroad that was way before the fentanyl crisis in the US wasn’t it?

I download straight from Tidal. Tben use a navidrome server to stream my music anywhere I go with my own library.

If i remember correctly after the downfall of reddit and the mass migration to Lemmy happened a big issue was CSAM spreading across the Lemmy servers. Wouldn’t surprise me that that is the cause that images are no liner stored across servers.