The other subs dont want to bother with the hassle of moving. They just want a "show of force" without actually having backup plans. Piracy subreddit is dying, the other subs can choose to stay, but we have no choice, we had to move.
Nice, I just joined too and am already enjoying this community and the whole lemmy thing in general. Some weird stuff about it like instances defederating each other is new to me, but I think I can get used to posting more on here.
I feel like I see Kbin mentioned way more often when I'm on my Kbin account, even when on posts from Lemmy. Anyone else notice that? I guess it just has to be like an attention bias.
Yeah, I noticed that too. I'm not sure if that's just due to that being local content and maybe mirroring remote content is slowed down with all the new activity and instances coming online. I also see in user settings a text box for "Featured Magazines" but I can't find any documentation on what/how that works. I would figure it would prioritize those mags, but I'm not sure of anything yet.
Is that something we can already do or do you mean that as an idea? That's a neat idea if so. I don't think a user's subscription page is locked out, so might be neat to replace the random mag block with newly updated subscribed mags via greasemonkey script or something.
That's awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I'm not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we're probably safer here.
Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there'll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there's no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn't this one
The risk is significantly reduced if the instance its running on and the domain host is in a country that isnt legally obligated to honor DMCA takedowns. Wothout doing research, this instance likely is in a major country, and therefor not its permanent location because of this. but whats different than reddit is we have the capability to host the servers ourself where we want.
Once(if) its taken down, another instance can be run from a more friendly country and DMCA notices wont have any weight legally.
The only problem then would be popular home instances going excommunicado with the pirate instance like that bee one did recently
Even popular home instances going excomunicado isn't a huge deal, as people can just make an alternative account just for this instance. Jerbora already supports multiple accounts so it's hardly an inconvenience.
The instance owner is an anarchist that doesn't care about copyright. We aint shutting down unless he gets sued, and the case also needs standing. As long as we dont link directly to pirated content, we're fine.
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