Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit.
For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/
Neat. I tried getting into fediverse a couple time during the last 3 years and everytime I’d get bored after a day or two.
This time it feels different though. I never imagined there would be this much activity on here. We really oughta thank spez lmao
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Precisely! And unlike Twitter or Facebook you’re not reliant to other specific people.
Reddit have us an opening we wouldn’t have had otherwise.
I think lemmy has the potential to break the fediverse wide open.
Pirates are used to migrating en masse
I’m assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the “fediverse”
It’s probably at the same level of difficulty to set up your own seedbox (i.e. in a VPS or even your own hardware) as it is to set up your own actual Lemmy instance.
Merelly figuring out the fediverse is way less complicated than either of those.
Seedbox user here, can confirm, lol.
If I had the money, I would. Alas, I’m a university student with no real source of income.
Put Oracle Free Tier to work…
Go on…
4 ARM64 cores, 24GB of RAM and 200GB of storage, and some other resources and older x86, for the low low price of free. 10TB outgoing limit, no incoming limit as far as I know. You can setup one or many VPS using the resources.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
I have a a full media stack running on one - Plex, Tautulli, Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, Qbittorrent, Jackett among other services like Portainer, YTDL, Traefik. I’ve seen 8+ streams with 4 or 5 720p transcodes, the CPU is pegged but it keeps up.
For storage I use a combo of services. Rclone, mounting a remote google drive to /mnt/remote. Cloudplow, takes stuff from /mnt/local folder and directly uploads to the remote drive via gdrive API using the same rclone config. And mergerfs, takes the /mnt/remote and /mnt/local folders and combines them into a /mnt/merged folder. The /mnt/merged folder is the main folder for media, downloads, etc. Any writes are first stored in /mnt/local.
I describe that setup to demonstrate the capacity of a free service, of course much less complex for a seedbox.
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
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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I wish a lot of the other subreddits staying dark had a plan like this too.
Yep, a lot of them are just missing the opportunity
I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit’s fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.
FUCK YOU SPEZ!
Community makes things grate, I believe in it, so let’s go lemmy.
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 think Lemmy has prospects to be even better than Reddit. Let’s drink go it!
Long live Lemmy and screw reddit
Migrating from Reddit to Lemmy was easier than migrating from Netflix to a seedbox.
I think with users who know the basics about internet piracy, switching to a Lemmy instance wasn’t difficult.
ngl one of the main reasons i went with this instance is because i figure pirates have experience keeping a server running
If this place was to shutdown I think I’d be lost, hopefully we don’t die down.
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This is fantastic. I hope the fediverse instances can keep up with the load. lemmy.dbzer0.com is struggling right now and instances are not syncing with each other.
Funny, how this sub and post was displayed as the first one after completing my registration on kbin :'D
Yeah it’s still weird getting used to how this fediverse thing works.
I do feel like Im in some kind of multiverse alright. Its new and weird, but also quite nice, knowing that many platforms are connected.
How do you sort the browser by largest community? It doesn’t appear to sort that way by default.
