All the piracy subs I can find are dead, quiet, or too niche. I’d love to be part of an effort to bring reliable and maintained information about how to safely pirate to lemmy. It’s actually one of the most frustrating things about switching from reddit. Are we puritanical here or something? If we had active piracy scenes I pretty much wouldn’t have to be on reddit at all anymore.
On lemmy.world it is dead, you need to pop over to DB0 or ml.
The world admins have the stance that they don’t want to host or directly link to piracy content because of the legal trouble it may bring as it’s hosted in the Netherlands and the piracy rules are different here.
I had no idea, I heard they banned and then unbanned some piracy communities but that was it and it was a couple years ago. thanks for the context.
NL the world capital of usenet? That NL?
That NL, we also have quite a few banned domains here. Basically copyright organisations like Brein will sue everyone they can get away with. Unfortunately they have been succesfull on multiple occasions, mostly because the other party won’t show up in court and they win by default. Another thing they do is sue one of the large ISP’s for facilitating copyright infringement to get them to block sites like torrent sites. If the judge rules in their favor, then all Dutch ISP’s have to abide by the ruling.
This is news to me so thanks for the heads up.
I’m awaiting my db0 approval now.
You don’t need to be registered there. Just at one that’s federated with it.
I thought NL had great laws and that is why basically every seedbox provider is based there.
Piracy related communities are blocked on lemmy.world
Wow. The more I experience and learn about world, the more it starts to look like .ml but without the communism. Just a bunch of loosely moderated communities with low quality mods that only enforce rules when it hurts their feelings.
I could have stayed on reddit if I wanted to deal with this shit.
Lmao, .world and reddit are still worlds apart
It’s more liberal and not full of ads or bots. Those are the only differences I’ve seen.
Those are very big differences
I’m sure they’d invite you to hire the lawyers it’ll take to deal with the fallout of a lawsuit from hosting piracy comms when Sony comes hunting. Should be able to easily cover that with the scads of free-flowing donations pouring in from the notoriously wealthy Lemmings that use it.
yes, redditors all fleeing to lemmy, made lemmy…just like reddit…
Lemmy.world tries really hard to follow the law. That means cracking down on illegal content. So yes, we are puritanical here.
At the very bottom is a menu with an entry called “Instances”. Click that to see lists of linked and blocked instances.
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oh, well when i go to that community it says nothing is there?
It’s blocked by lemmy.world, like half the fediverse is.
Mander and most other instances don’t block them.
Lemmy.world has the problem of being large and successful. As a result they block a lot of instances and topics before they become a potential problem. They want to avoid litigation, and since they’re one of the largest instances they believe that they are a prime target should a crackdown on the fediverse happen.
lemmy should really show it when a comm is banned and let users know they can just switch instance instead of telling there’s nothing…
This would be a nice UX feature. Something like “This community has been banned/blocked from [INSTANCE] for [REASON].”
It doesnt look like anything to me either
Because you’re on a shit instance with terrible administration.
Aww, come now. I think Lemmy.world for sure has its place in the fediverse. It’s the first instance I would refer a normie to. Because they block a lot of shit. And they have a great domain name, easy to remember and tell someone about. Then someone like OP can post a question like this, and we can direct them to an instance that better suits their needs. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.
That’s basically how I went from world to piefed. I started getting back into using Soulseek but I couldn’t find anything except comments that world blocks piracy related topics. So I looked around and switched to here so I can see more stuff.
Their admins are literally genocidal zionists who advocate for the eradication of brown people.
Can you cite at least one example where the admins advocated for eradication of brown people or were literally genocidal zionists? I have the same amount of evidence at hand that marxismtomorrow is also one, i.e. nothing. You can DM me if you think you would get banned posting it on world.
Oh I was not aware of that.
LW is the worst Zionist instance. They go out of there to silence Palestinian issues and push Israeli victimhood.
Personally I’m 📱 only so pirating is whatever streaming site works the best. Agreed that Lemmy could use more though, even if I can’t use it. Maybe Lenny is full of mobile phone chuds like me?
Come to lemmy.today. everything is unblocked (probably)
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Everything here is dead in comparison to Reddit. Reddit has huge numbers of users and enough users to have constant active participation in even very niche communities. Lemmy has very limited numbers of users. You certainly won’t find niches here. Even popular things like piracy or even games and movies don’t get anywhere near as much active participation. The population here is also very different (very tech adept, mostly politically left, mostly older/millennial). People might just not need to ask any piracy questions because they’ve got a good handle on it anyway. Lemmy is nothing like Reddit. You mostly can’t expect as much engagement with your posts. I don’t even bother with subscribing to communities because they have such little content that it’s pointless to browse anything other than “all”. On Lemmy you only get what you get…whether you consider that a good or bad thing is up to you.
Reddit has huge numbers of bots
Fixed that for you,
There are far more bots that you realize.
Fake upvotes and fake comments, to drive the few people still on there to keep providing content for free.
very niche communities
True in general, yet reddit would never allow speaking openly of pirated content like you can do on the fediverse. Way too many corporate dicks in the fire over there these days
there aren’t many ‘piracy meme’ shitposts but info wise it seems to be good enough. the community is quite friendly and questions are well answered too.
They downvoted him because he spoke the truth.
