Lemmy.world banning piracy made me realize it's something a client can solve
If I was logged into several instances at once in the client and seeing the composite feed and then could choose instance when replying or posting (with some set default, like from: field in e-mail clients) lemmy.world could ban piracy all it wants and it'd still be in my feed without me having to leave it or change instances.
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Banning piracy? Like the mere encouragement or?
That instance is fast becoming moderated as just as much of a neoliberal authoritarian shithole as r/politics was 🤦
Banning any chance that instance owners face legal actions for piracy.
It's really not tough reasoning. The vast majority of instances will do the same.
The irony bring that Reddit itself doesn't ban piracy related stuff as long as you don't outright post links publicly... It's a shitty kind of platform to do that anyway.
I mean they have a legal team. Joe Shmo doesn't.
Are you going to spin up a server then?
If they don't want any chance of facing legal actions then they should just shut down the instance.
What a brilliant advice :/
That's horrible advice lol
And I completely disagree. I'm quite happy to continue using this site.
Imo your advice is counter to the foundation of the fediverse. If you want piracy, then go to a piracy instance. Vote with your feet, my friend.
I am not asking you to stop using lemmy.world. It's their instance, they can do whatever they want. I was replying to the above comment that the Instance owners don't want any chance of getting sued. As long as they have an Instance in the Fediverse, there will always be a chance of getting sued.
But it is perfectly normal to try to lower the risk of getting sued, even if the chance will never be zero.
Meanwhile the admin not wanting to deal with the inevitable legal trouble: T_T
Yeah, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on this one. I wouldn't be surprised if the admin got a few scary letters from several letter agencies.
Inevitable legal trouble my ass! It was a troll invoking a counterfactual version of reality to trick the admins into being his instrument of petty revenge for being banned
Dude, Nintendo used to strike people on YouTube for just playing their games. Some authorities question why you would share a link to a game you are playing without marking your content as sponsored. Do you reall think providing a forum for piracy will stay without consequences for even a year?
Maybe if you live in the right country or hide your identity really well.
.world never profided a forum though, that's a ridiculous strawman. By not blocking, they’re not hosting piracy any more than being able to find The Pirate Bay with a Google search makes Google a torrent site.
All you're so cute thinking money doesn't matter...
Google 100+ billion dollar company with lobbyists out the ass.
Lemme World
ROFL
Just the mere encouragement & discussion, yes. The banned communities do not allow direct links to pirated content (!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a rule forbidding that).
It's strange to see people saying there was some sort of legit reasoning, the lemmy.world admins did not receive any sort of legal DMCA/NTD request or anything of the sort. They were simply trolled hard by a brand new account from lemm.ee asking to defederate from "piracy" communities and lemmy.world admins took the bait. See the post yourself https://lemmy.world/post/3175920
Incidentally that same user has created troll accounts at other instances & have been getting themselves banned, they were already banned at the dbzer0 instance (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1956277) so it looks like it was simple retaliation to attempt to trick other instances into defederating/blocking them.
What an asshole! 🤬🤦
I don't think it has to do with ideologies but more like the admins can't afford a fight against the very same people you're talking about.
Meh. That’s not really how it works though. If pirated content is not actually spread on the platform nothing illegal is happening, and regardless, long before any fight was going to happen there would have been takedown request.
Sure, but why risk it when this is essentially a volunteer project?
I'm not saying they're right. I'm just saying I understand their concerns. Others don't care and allow piracy content just fine.
They banned piracy from lemmy.ml and dbzer0.com and also shrooms and other subs. They strive to be the aww emporium, it seems.
Stupid comment. Far from it.