lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638

The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.

If this is a problem for you, I'd suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn't block it (such as lemm.ee).

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An official announcement has been made:

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I just spun up my own instance and federate with whoever I want.

What kind of specs do you need to run a personal instance? I'd like to, but I don't really want to invest in a bunch of computer stuff right now

Eh, as long as it can run Linux, >2gb of RAM, and >50GB of storage, even a raspberry pi can host Lemmy.

No way! I've got a r pi 4 buried somewhere in my garage. Gonna have to try to set up my own instance. Is there a starter guide for people of limited intelligence? How'd you get yours set up?

Lemmy Easy Deploy has ARM64 support.

After you got lemmy up and running on your raspberry pi, the next hurdle is making it accessible from the internet so other lemmy instances can federate with your instance. There are several way to do that, such as getting a static ip address from your ISP and forwarding port 80 and 443 to your pi from your router config, using clodflare tunnel, etc.

Just ask the selfhost community if you hit a roadblock. They love getting more people to join their rank.

Great! Thanks for the tips. Happy to find my next project lol

I got the cheapest VPS from Hetzner which is around 5 EUR.

until your instance gets banned for being too small once the system reaches critical mass.

i have been on the mastodon side of the fedi since 2018

single user instances do not get defed'd out of nowhere. i've rarely (if ever) seen that happen. now if you're an asshole in a single user instance then maybe, but there isn't anyone going "ooh i'm gonna defederate from this guy" without you provoking them in some way.

When single user interfaces start becoming problematic, they will be. Neither of these platforms have reached a large enough size to need it, but it will eventually be necessary for groups of servers to only federated with themselves to ensure compatibility and scalability. We already have issues with propagating content, systemic and programmaticly.