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.

  • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
    5234·
    1 year ago

    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 🤦

    • nbafantest@lemmy.world
      6312·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • transistor@lemdro.idEnglish
        1327·
        1 year ago

        If they don’t want any chance of facing legal actions then they should just shut down the instance.

        • nbafantest@lemmy.world
          91·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • transistor@lemdro.idEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • clgoh@lemmy.world
              21·
              1 year ago

              But it is perfectly normal to try to lower the risk of getting sued, even if the chance will never be zero.

    • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      345·
      1 year ago

      Banning piracy? Like the mere encouragement or?

      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.

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
      326·
      1 year ago

      neoliberal authoritarian shithole

      Meanwhile the admin not wanting to deal with the inevitable legal trouble: T_T

    • El Barto@lemmy.world
      248·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ribboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        113·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • El Barto@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 year ago

          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.