I’ve seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances.
No they didn’t. They blocked 3 communities from 2 different instances. All other communities on those instances are available to .world users and .world is still available to all users on those two instances.
Blocking individual communities is not the same thing as defederating from those instances.
I’m not saying they are or aren’t. I’m simply saying that we all know the big media companies go after people at the drop of a hat. They recently tried to get reddit to expose the identities of people discussing piracy over there. To their credit reddit told them no and defended themselves legally. And that’s the issue. The media companies can accuse anyone of anything if it even slightly smells like piracy and the target has to legally defend themselves. This is fine if you’re a multibillion valued company. Not so fine if you’re just some guy who just wanted to run a Lemmy instance out of his own pocket.
I don’t know about you but engaging a lawyer and going to court to defend myself would be a massive financial drain. And to risk that on simply the hope that a court might find in my favour is far too big of a risk. Then add on all the unwanted public exposure, the internet notoriety etc. Fuck that.
That’s a bit naive, knowing what we know about the sharks that run the large media corporations. For your average instance owner, it’s not a question of being found not liable, it’s the fact that you as an ordinary guy with an ordinary life and an ordinary income suddenly have to defend yourself legally with all the exposure and expense that entails, from day one.
Nothing. It’s just 3 communities on dbzero that are blocked and as far as I know, they’re only blocked on .world. There’s no defederation so you as a user signed up to dbzero can still participate in any .world community and any .world user can still interact with communities on dbzero apart from the three named.
Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.
If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.
Are all their apps/backend open source? They have a github repo but it’s not very clear what’s open source or if its partial open source or what. I think it’s just their mail app and windows desktop app.
If that is this case, they’re asking their users to have a lot of trust in them.
If someone posts from Mastodon to Lemmy, then yeah, that content is now part of Lemmy.
Yunohost installs a whole OS - Debian 11 - so you’d be essentially be flattening the drive.
I self host Ampache and have Sublime Music on my desktop and Substreamer on my Android device.
That was a bit halfhearted. You didn’t use the phrase ‘hive mind’ or anything.
OK, so you can login anonymously. Great.
The real question is; why would you want to, given that the dead bird site is a cesspool of extreme rightwing awfulness? What are you hoping to learn or take from being on there?
A few months ago. They said that hosting companies and other providers were refusing to work with them if they continued with it as a feature.
It’s just too easy to abuse by bad people using it to host very questionable content. Lots of people then moved to ivpn and then they removed it too, for the same reasons.
Don’t know about the other 2 but .world has been enduring an on/off ddos attack for over a week, then yesterday had a non ddos related db issue.
100% with AdBlock and LocalCDN on LibreWolf.
I did once, but after the crypto thing, then the trying to sell rights to other people’s content, then finding out how awful Eich is, it’s a ‘no’.
‘policed’ - lol :)
I genuinely don’t give a shit about what app anybody uses. I’m not anti or pro any particular app. Feel free to go through my comment history and you’ll see mention of Sync in this and only this thread. Why?
Because a) I don’t give a shit what app people use and b) this isn’t a thread about Sync. The fact that the word ‘Sync’ appears in the title and body is used in an illustrative way to highlight the fact that Lemmy as a piece of software was developed by two guys who were given a grant. It needs funding via donations. Instance owners also need funding via donations. If these two things don’t happen Lemmy goes away. That’s the point of this thread, irregardless of what language or words were used. I’m not OP so I can’t say why they chose to use Sync as an example.
When Sync users jump in to tell everyone how much they love Sync, that detracts from the point of the thread. It dillutes it and all of a sudden everyone’s talking about Sync, not what the thread subject is about. OP and a couple others tried to go through this thread telling Sync posters that that wasn’t the point of thread. Then Sync posters got annoyed and we started getting the ‘I just want to use Sync’, ‘why do you care?’ comments. So we responded to those too.
Mods are only going to step in if a thread gets nasty, which it hasn’t. It’s just very very frustrating to see a thread hijacked by people who want to talk about how great an app is in a thread designed to draw attention to the fact that Lemmy as a piece of software and instance owners - both of which any app absolutely requires in order to function - need support.
If you or anyone else wants to talk about Sync in a positive or negative way then I’m sure there are communities you can do that in. There’s absolutely no need to enshittify a thread that has absolutely no bearing on Sync (or any other app) as a piece of software, especially when that thread discusses a subject as absolutely vital to the continued existence, growth and maturation of Lemmy as this.
It’s point about the fact that comments on a post are all part of the topic of that post and using the word ‘branch’ to try and infer that this is somehow a whole new subject under discussion is daft. Why do you think so many communities have ‘stay on topic’ as one of their rules?
Not sa far as I know.