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[-] silvercove@lemdro.id 157 points 1 year ago

Also lemmy.world is not the most stable instance and experiences a lot of downtime. My user experience got a lot better after I moved out of lemmy.world.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago

It experiences a lot of downtime because the alt right kids who got defederated keep using 4chans ddos tool to bring it down...

It's not going down from normal user load.

[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

If only people knew how hard the staff was working to improve things and keep it up.

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[-] gk99@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago

I've explicitly been using my beehaw.org account pretty much exclusively because of the constant DDOS attacks on lemmy.world.

Kinda funny how their plan to seemingly kill Lemmy is just helping it stay decentralized by pushing people to other instances.

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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 133 points 1 year ago

Sucks but if Lemmy.World is gonna be the "face" of Lemmy it's probably best to keep the shadier sides of the fediverse out. Just to keep the damn lawyer trolls off our back.

Plus it keeps the "uninitiated normies" out of the Piracy instance. At least until they know.

[-] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

Don't you all love democracy?

Let's vote on who is the face of the fediverse.

xi-vote

hexbear-retro

[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 27 points 1 year ago
[-] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

Here's our actual logo.

hexbear-chapochat

My obvious bias aside it is a banger logo.

It comes in lots off different flavors.

hexbear-lesbian hexbear-non-binary hexbear-trans :hexbear-bi-2 hexbear-gay-pride

hexbear-posadist hexbear-pride hexbear sicko-hexbear

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[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

They will never be the face because they're always down.

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[-] glimse@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

FWIW this is one of the most frequent communities I see while browsing. I don't mind it but it's definitely a bad look if they want lemmy.world to appeal to the everyman.

I've noticed a lot more "normie" content in the past few weeks so it definitely seems like the site is attracting more than just techy people now.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy fucking shit they're blocking piracy? What a bunch of losers. Get off the anti-corporate platform built on copyleft principles if you have a problem with piracy.

[-] tails__miles_prower@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

The losers are commenting on this site as well.

https://hexbear.net/post/317675

Transphobia? That's cool with them. Treating food workers like shit? Also fine. But watch a copy of a movie? "Horrible theft". There are people dying over preventable causes due to patents that aren't even held by the creators. I hate liberals

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[-] vidumec@lemm.ee 83 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i feel like blocking of instances leads to worse echo chambers than subreddits themselves. We gonna have bubbles of federation networks that don't federate with each other. E.g. lefties, righties, "dark web" illegal shit, kinky shit, and instances that federate with all of them will be blocked by other instances because "use my blacklist or get defederated". This is gonna lead to hell for users having to create fifty accounts for each bubble. Aint nobody got time for that.

i wish it remained a user's option to block/unblock content they don't/do want to see. Each instance could provide their "recommended" default list of enabled instances, and user can go and enable others, like how NSFW toggle works. Maybe group instances into categories with tags or something, like "porn", "memes", "tankies", "nazis", "warez", etc

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[-] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 year ago

Not sure why nobody in the comments is distinguishing between blocking a community on an instance (removing /c/piracy) and defederating instances (saying your users can't subscribe to otherinstance.com/c/piracy). They are very different things. We should be very skeptical of defederation.

Removing a community because it violates the rules of your instance is A-OK and every instance should do this. Anybody can run an instance, and anybody can set their own rules, that's the whole idea of federation.

De-federating other instances because you find their content objectionable is less ok. Lemmy is like e-mail. Everybody registers at gmail or office365 or myfavoriteemail.com. Every email host runs their own servers, but they all talk to each other through an open protocol. You would be pissed to find out that gmail just suddenly decided to stop accepting mail from someothermailprovider.com because a bunch of their users are pirates or tankies. Or blocked your favourite email newsletter from reaching your inbox because it had inflammatory political content.

Allowing your users to receive e-mail, or content from subcommunities on other lemmy instances is not a legal risk like hosting the content yourself is (IANAL etc). Same way Gmail is not liable if somebody on some other e-mail server does something illegal by emailing a gmail user. That's why you can register at torrentwebsite.com and get a user confirmation email successfully delivered to your inbox. Gmail is federated with all other e-mail services without needing to endorse them or accept legal liability for them.

Lemmy's strength, value, and future comes from being the largest federated space for link-sharing and other forms of communication.

De-federation is bad.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

defederation is good for nazi and CSAM instances. no one should touch either with a 10ft pole. there's absolutely no reason to give them a larger platform.

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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.world is turning vanilla. They closed the shrooms community too!

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

Facilitating Piracy no matter how you put it is wrong and illegal, it is wrong and illegal to support people who do it.

Remember Netizen, when you're pirating Disney, you're downloading communism! programming-communism

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[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think lemmy.world is about to be rudely made aware of how many pirates were on their site.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago

Might help lighten their load.

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[-] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

They're not making any money from this anyway

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[-] h3ndrik@feddit.de 46 points 1 year ago

Where is the piracy? (Asking for a friend.)

[-] papajohn@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

My friend wants to know too. He has his pirates license.

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[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Uh…well I know what I’m about to do then. If I wanted some cunt to have unrestricted control over the content I see I would have stayed with Reddit and that pigboy spez.

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[-] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 39 points 1 year ago

Welcome fellow pirate!

[-] c1177johuk@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.world blocked the dbzer0 instance? I guess it's time to switch then...

[-] agoseris@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

They didn't block the whole instance, just the specific piracy community.

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

The only thing that makes data useful to humanity is the fact that it can be copied - not copying data is unethical.

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[-] olizet@lemmy.works 29 points 1 year ago

I have created my own instance. With blackjack! And hookers, err, NSFW.

I found a cheap VPS and the easy_deploy script from git, that's how it started. And for 10 €/month I'll keep it going with a user count of 1.

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[-] Millie@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

I've begun blocking their communities in my accounts and I plan to defederate from them when i get home. Fuck em. Place is infested with exploding heads anyway.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Anyone know of a good/current breakdown of the available instances? I landed on LW during the reddit exodus, and so far I've been happy here - haven't felt the itch to relapse back to reddit or the need to find a new home on the fed... even this piracy thing isn't a deal breaker for me personally since I don't really engage in that content anyway - but on principle I dislike that it's been blocked.

Despite all that, I wouldn't mind poking my head around just to see what's up, and maybe find my nice little niche, but I don't know the best way to actually go about navigating the fed.

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[-] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 23 points 1 year ago

Any Lemmy instance list which shows communities that have been defed by each instances? Should help new users make better choices.

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