I think the subs permanently blacking out are the ones with the most impact. Having 24/48/72 hour blackout just says "we'll be back soon!", and in the end, is pretty meaningless. Shutting down legitimately and moving (taking some of your user base with you) is the only thing that will have any real impact.

Reddit is bound to just replace the mods of certain subreddits and reopen them. So the only real reason to do any damage is to move and take some users with you.

A lot of seedboxes are hosted in The Netherlands, from my understanding, its kind of an unenforced law, or selectively enforced.

As for how we can get away with it, it's kind of simple and also cool. Our VPS host Privex is super chill, and we are signed up with them anonymously. Let's say The Netherlands demanded Privex shut us down right away. Privex (who is based in Belize, which has no MLATs or other agreements with The Netherlands) would contact us and say "Hey, we gotta get you off this location, what do you want to do?" We would then easily hop ship to another location on Privex. We've actually been wanting to move to a Sweden VPS (who's datacenter is also extremely chill) to have a little more freedom in that way.

But basically, we can do it because in a worst case scenario we'd just pop back up again. Whether that be on a different VPS, different location or even different host, and we'd be back in business within a few hours (probably significantly less)

Hope this could answer your question.

I understand you feel insistent about this, but please understand we will not be changing our wording.

That's fine, but do keep in mind that it's in our rules that when interacting on other instances, you follow the rules of those instances.

Sorry, I have to disagree with you. The loli/shota/cub policy only helps us and has been the reason if not a reason, why people have signed up. It doesn't just say "we allow freedom of expression" but it says "and this is how far we go." Loli/Shota/Cub are artistic expression, forms of expression often blocked on many if not most platforms. We will not be changing our policy, stance, or visibility of said stance/policy.

You do realize all the loli/shota/cub stuff are in communities, right? Like it's up to the individual communities on whether they want to allow it or not. We even have a few communities who don't allow it. They're also all NSFW communities which can be easily filtered out on a per-user basis, all posts marked as NSFW (also easy to filter out.)

We're not a "Free Speech" instance and never claimed to be. We explain that pretty in-depth here: https://burggit.moe/post/5280 It's a pinned post which is SFW and was available for viewing before you signed up.

NSFL content would also only worsen the defederation issue, if that's something you genuinely care about.

Sorry, we're not going to change our policies, not for you, not for other instances and for no other reason so long as we can help it. Genuinely wouldn't care if every instance defederated with us tomorrow, we won't bend.

It's most likely our willingness to host loli/shota/cub and probably because we allow controversial opinions. They might've also found something we posted that went against the Chinese Communist Party or North Korea or some other communist country.

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is inevitable and there's little we can do to stop it beyond what we have already put in place to try and make peace with other instances. And we do not intend on changing our policies to try and appease other instances.

Other instances do not like us because we allow opinions they disagree with and controversial content.

This is one of the first things I noticed about Lemmy, I agree that it's neat, but I too would like a way to see total subscribers, though I imagine that would be very difficult considering how federation works. For example, our total subscriber count would be fairly low, since it would only be the total subscribers of the instances who don't defederate us. It wouldn't count instances like beehaw, lemmy.ml or a number of other instances who have decided we are too problematic to stay federated with.

I don't know, that almost feels implied, especially since it says (optional) in the email textbox when signing up.