It’s gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

  • @[email protected]
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    679 months ago

    lemmy.world has been acting very weird lately. Almost like they are the one and the only authority of Lemmy.

    • @YoBuckStopsHere
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      669 months ago

      Almost like LW admins don’t want to end up in jail.

        • @[email protected]
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          Nobody wants to end up in jail, but that’s not a reason to become reddit.

          Says the guy who is at 0 risk of going to jail for it lol.

          By all means create your own instance with a rules-free piracy community, then when you start getting into legal trouble, you can bit the bullet and go to jail lol

        • @YoBuckStopsHere
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          299 months ago

          Every instance has their own rules and where your server is located can factor into those rules. Being a EU server and not a Russian server likely plays a role in that.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      I moved to lemm.ee from lemmy.world after that whole hack thing a few weeks ago and it seems like lemmy.world has been going through some weird shit ever sense.

    • @techgearwhipsOP
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      259 months ago

      Yea… it’s time to boogie off this instance for a while before they turn into Reddit Jr.

    • @[email protected]
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      219 months ago

      It’s their instance, they are free to do as they wish to comply with their local regulations

      • @small44
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        19 months ago

        But when it’s a centralized social media who do what they want in there playform you guys complains about it

        • @[email protected]
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          79 months ago

          I personally never complained about piracy being removed from Reddit, it makes sense from a legal perspective.

          The advantage of Lemmy is that all of the other instances still have that community.

          • Brickfrog
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            09 months ago

            Piracy subreddits still exist on Reddit. Lemmy.world admins are apparently blocking communities that even Reddit allows.

              • Brickfrog
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                39 months ago

                Sounds like you’re assuming there was some legal issue that triggered this community blocking? Lemmy.world admins did not receive any legal notices prior to this action, it was just their kneejerk response to a troll from another instance. You can view it yourself, browse to the post via [email protected] or see it directly https://lemmy.world/post/3175920

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      More like PEOPLE are acting like they’re the only authority of Lemmy.

      The whole point of Lemmy is that unlike Reddit, you can give middle fingers akimbo to the server and still participate.

      It’s not that difficult to jump ship.

    • @cow
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      159 months ago

      I am starting to get frustrated with lemmy.world. The downtime and stability was one thing but now they cloudf****ed it, the stability has not significantly improved and cloud flare can now see everything we do here. Once there is account migration I plan on self hosting an instance.

    • freamon
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      119 months ago

      I’d mind less if their own instance wasn’t so broken.

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      Ye I think I need to start my own instance, That’s the only way I can get away from bullshit like this

      • Eddie
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        39 months ago

        I’ve been on my own instance since I started using Lemmy a few months ago and it’s amazing to just… do whatever I want.

        • @[email protected]
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          79 months ago

          You know, I agree that this is definitely the beauty of Lemmy’s federated nature but I’m somewhat perplexed by statements like “I can do whatever I want”. I mean for sure, in theory you definitely can, but were really being held back before? I just personally have never actually run up against the limits of my freedoms online and being unable to do something I want to do. I’m probably just super vanilla and boring I suppose. I guess the recent shit with Reddit is an example where I really was constricted, by virtue of no longer having the choice of mobile app to access the website through, but then, I just jumped ship to Lemmy. I can imagine I might run in to a situation where the admins of the instance I signed up to block a community I liked, but it’s very rare that this is a community that I care about and when it is, there’s almost always another server around I can make an account for and sign up to all the same communities as before. I guess in typing this I’m seeing that the answer is that, with your own instance you won’t have to keep hopping, but I guess I just so rarely get inconvenienced by admin decisions that it’s never seemed worth the trouble.

          If it’s not too prying, can I ask what is it you want to, and in practice really would do, that running your own instance has now allowed you? Not just theoretical but, like a real existing capability that you’ve gained and make use of regularly? It’s appealing to me from a theoretical basis and sometimes the theory and principle alone is enough, but the effort barrier hasn’t seemed worth it for the theoretical gains alone.