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.
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.
Would be interested in it as well. Whole reddit fiasco shows us that monopoly sooner or later will be abused
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 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: posts critical of the Chinese ruling party seems to be getting taken down, including mainstream news articles
that being said, I personally just arrived here, have had zero censorship experiences here so far, and am hoping for the best
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!
It’s federated so if you run into any issues you can always make another
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.
I mean nobodies called me the n word yet so I guess it’s pretty tame
