From what i understand, Stremio is just an interface, it doesnt work without plugins

Torrentio is the main plugin you want. The one you use your real debrid account on.

Real debrid is a service that torrents your movie for you, so you are not the one torrenting. Its potentially faster bc if its a movie that it has saved already, maybe because someone else downloaded it recently, you dont have to wait for the torrent to complete. RD also has the bonus of being able to download from multiple file hosters as a premium user.

Anyways when you configure stremio and search for the movie, it will look for any torrent and then you can stream it directly, without downloading.

Its a pixel thing. In fairly sure its a feature of the assistant that they just made it always on.

I think the learning curve comes from the instances. People got used to centralized services so when you say Lemmy they expect one website. Here you got to choose the instance first and then if communities are in a different instance you need to account for that with the @instance…

Personally I am getting it pretty quickly but I can see why its confusing.