The reddit piracy community was in a neverending struggle to avoid being banned from the site, constantly censoring and restricting what people could post to keep the reddit admins happy. What’s the situation with that sort of thing on lemmy? Is it a free for all? Same situation as back there? Something in between? I guess we may all find out together…
Genuinely it would be best for someone to make a piracy-focused instance in a country that has loose copyright laws. Then we can have separate communities for each type of piracy. i.e. a main piracy.co.ck website, then a !piracy community just for general piracy discussion and news, communities for books (!books, !textbooks), communities for movies (!movies, !moviesespañol, !moviesbollywood), individual communities for different game consoles (!pc, !switch, !ps3, !amstradcpc), and so on and so forth.
To help with server load we could even maybe set it up so nobody can make accounts on it and can only make posts from accounts on other servers? I don’t know if that would help or is a possible configuration but it’s worth a thought I think.
The /r/piracy subreddit is already blacked out and directing to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy. I don’t know the history of that instance but it seems to be mostly piracy-focused communities. Could be what you’re talking about has happened already.
Judging by the IP address, lemmy.ml seems to be located in France. That’s not fantastic for take-down notices, as far as I’m aware.
I’m in Serbia, land of the free, home of the torrents. I don’t know if there are VPS providers here, but if so, it’s a good country for hosting anything but government criticism (not that you’d need to criticize Vućić the benevolent, long may he reign).
I just want the website to work normally man… The current influx of new users has shut almost everything down. The poor server hamsters…
Yea, we got some growing pains. I hope Lemmy.ml has prepared for Monday. If the tinyest percentage of Reddit comes along (and I’ve been mentions of Lemmy in many subreddits) then this place will experience a deluge.
They haven’t. It’s why I had to setup up my on instance
A couple of your links are broken.
This page links here: http://www.dbzer0.com/about/personal/reading/
Did you put in a relative link instead of an absolute link perhaps?
Ha this stuff is really old. Need to Chek
Free for all social sites just become overwhelmed by alt-right fascists.
Haha I don’t mean that kind of censorship, I mean in terms of piracy.
LOL, that makes sense. I didn’t notice the sub…err…community I was in.
It’s a classic paradox of tolerance situation.
Hey, I’d strongly recommend using njal.la or 1984.is to get a VPS and run your own instance from it. Both services are organisationally designed to fend off DMCA and other takedown notices. Like literally, the Njalla creator has a whole page where he mockingly replies to such requests.
Njalla is based in Sweden, 1984 in Iceland. Both accept anonymous crypto payments, but only 1984 accepts Monero.
More generally, I’d recommend these two services to anyone interested in running an instance catered to “risky” topics like piracy.
I think you mixed them up. njal.la accepts Monero, but I think 1984.is doesn’t. https://njal.la/pricing/. At least I couldn’t see Monero as an option on 1984.is
Oh interesting! Last I checked Njalla was Bitcoin/Ethereum only but glad they accept XMR now. I run a 1984 VPS so can confirm that they accept XMR. I prefer them as they’re cheaper than Njalla (only a little bit still)
I heard lemmy.ml bans/removes things critical of China/CCP, but haven’t tested it yet. Maybe someone may chime in with experiences.
I heard If you’re going to say something like that you should back it up with evidence.
https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781
here’s the proof you asked for, including mod logs.
TLDR: anything critical of the Chinese ruling party seems to be getting taken down, including mainstream news articles
God damn that is so disturbing. I’m already losing hope for this platform if things like this are already happening. People should be free to speak as they please.
If you disagree, dispute the argument. I cannot stand ban culture!
Would be interested in it as well. Whole reddit fiasco shows us that monopoly sooner or later will be abused
What if they threat the Lemmy.ml owners to handout users data just like they did with reddit? What type of data does this instance collect?
It’s federated so if you run into any issues you can always make another
It’s scary , cos lemy.ml doesn’t want the whole website deleted because Disney and Nintendo find one of their files here ,
Yeah I think hosting a piracy community on the largest instance run by the devs is counterintuitive. Makes much more sense to host it on one of the 200 other instances
This is not possible since it’s federated correct?
This is why it’s important that no one instance become the “main” instance for a federated service (see also: mastodon.social getting a lot of flack for officially becoming the default server). If that instance goes down then it suddenly takes a huge chunk of users and content with it. So long as lemmy.ml is one among dozens then all is good!
There might be some issues with lemmy.ml itself after a while, but the community should be able to move to a different instance if it becomes a problem on one.
Are you referring to physical issues with Lemmy.ml, like staying reliable, or some future philosophical changes?
It’s entirely possible that in the future lemmy.ml may be taken over by admins who disagree with piracy, taken down by a government, or simply run out of money to pay for hosting costs. If that happens it shouldn’t be a huge problem as the federated nature of Lemmy shields other instances from stuff like that going down in a separate instance!
I mean nobodies called me the n word yet so I guess it’s pretty tame
