It is indeed a hacker news mirror on lemmy afaik. And that being said lemmy isn’t really an average user crowd either.

Hackernews isn’t really catering to average end users.

Different tools for different purposes

Because not every movie and episode that I want to watch is already released. Radarr/sonarr lets me subscribe and downlod the correct movie/episode when available in the quality profile that I want.

Also automatically sorting everything in a useful structure when I share my plex libraries with friends and family.

You guys are not using radarr/sonarr?

Correct. But a VPN provider can also build a profile on that metadata, and transparency is often lacking in the VPN business. I live in a country with fairly good privacy laws for now and much prefer my ISP to have my metadata than someone else.

I trust my ISP more than a random VPN provider. I use HTTPS for everything anyways.