- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638
The largest piracy community is hosted over at [email protected]
lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked [email protected].
If this is a problem for you, I’d suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn’t block it (such as lemm.ee).
edit:
An official announcement has been made:
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That’s a real bummer although fully understandable. I will always support lemmy.world.
I don’t get how people are this mad when you can literally always selfhost and have the experience you want to have. It’s not like they’re trying to censor everything like beehaw did. It’s protecting the instance from any legal consequences that is very real.
Well, I was already planning to spin up my own instance. Guess this is as good of motivation as I needed.
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It’s unfortunate, but it’s kinda understandable why they chose to do so. The admins are just a bunch of regular people, they may not have the financial security to risk the legal issues that could come from having any sort of piracy related content.
I guess I’ll just be using my alt acc for piracy stuff.
Lemmy is no longer free :(
What a disappointment.
Dammit… moved to lemmy.world cos they seem friendly and now this shit…
Anyone knows of an instance which didn’t block anything? I don’t want to self-host.
Any recommendations for other instances where the admins don’t make decisions based on a single troll?
Selfhost because realistically any normal person with a passion of running an instance would(and, frankly, should) also be concerned with legal liabilities that comes with it.
I love all the salty comments about having to move. Its piracy, it will always be removed if it becomes too popular. This is how it has always been and always will be. No one is obligated to feed you free shit without any effort on your part. They take one place down and you move on. Either get used to it or start paying for services.
I think people forget that decentralized doesn’t mean anonymous, and it also doesn’t mean that server admins and servers aren’t beholden to local laws
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Wow fuck that.
I’m going to home on lemmy.today or lemmy.sdf.org.
Better
I don’t think the SDF group will ever defederate or block communities, it’s all up to user preference.
This is not difficult to deal with, setup an account on another server and stop using lemmy.world
No need to stop using LW. I’ve got three accounts on different instances plus kbin. Oh, and I fifth on if you count my nsfw login. Partitioning your online life is nbd, really. And the fediverse makes it easy.
Why bother to have 5, an account on a single decent instance should be sufficient.
Sopuli was my original instance from before I knew what the Fediverse was but however they have their server set federated community discovery has been broken from the beginning. World is my reddit migration account and I moderate a couple of communities there. I really like some of the communities on Beehaw, and they defederated pretty quickly from just about anyone with more than a few users, so I got an account there. Kbin didn’t seem to work as well cross-federation so…number 4. And I use a different handle for NSFW. It would be nice to have an app for aggregating usernames across instances, but I much of my browsing from desktop so it’s really nbd.
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Huh, isn’t this Spez strategy?
5D chess in all its glory!
At the moment clicking on the links of the defedereted instances opens the instance in the browser.
I hope clients/apps like Sync/Connect/Summit/Infinity etc give us the feature to browse these defedereted instances even if we logged into lemmy.world
I know you can’t post/comment/save, but for many, ability to browse would be enough.
A toggle in the settings for this feature would be enough.
Rule 1 is too vague.
No illegal content, including sharing copyrighted material without the explicit permission of the owner(s).
They can defederate with any instance with this rule. Why not just say “because we want to”?
Unless those communities were sharing links to pirated content. If it was just talk about piracy and piracy news then I don’t think that’s a good reason to defederate.
No illegal content
Illegal in which country? Copyright infringement isn’t illegal in my country for example, except for severe cases where you’re profiting off of it. If we have to cater to all countries’ laws we might as well ban music as well since it’s illegal in Afghanistan.
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The catch is it is illegal in the USA. The laws of the USA do not stop at their borders and they have successfully prosecuted people abroad for violating US copyright/trademark law.
Im not sure the admins need to fear Afghanistan but the US courts will absolutely pursue claims.
Illegal in which country?
I’m assuming Germany. As I understand, lemmy.world’s admin is Dutch, the servers are located in Finland and they are leased from a German company. So if piracy is illegal in any of these countries, they could get into trouble. From what I know, Germany is quite strict, so I’m guessing that is the concern.
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There are many different laws with different countries. Don’t forget that most (if not all) Fediverse instances are run by people in their free time with donations that just cover server costs. They aren’t LLCs so there is always the concern about legal issues. Not sure if that is their motivation but could be part of it.
