People bitching about Lemmy.world blocking piracy instances sound like spoiled teenagers with no consideration of consequences
Humans who run instances are real people who have jobs and mortgages and kids. I also like having piracy communities around to balance the greedy ass corporations trying to control media and copyright…I’m glad to know they are there if I need them or feel like screwing around with it. I just wonder if the people ranting all indignantly acting like instances are competing for their usership would feel the same if the most active instance was on a server physically sitting in their basement, or paid for by money tied to them in the real world. Yes it seems pretty unlikely that you’re ever going to run into issues with law enforcement, copyright claims, lawsuits…but how much would you risk for a fucking hobby you do for free? Would you risk your house? Your job? I would not. Grow up. No one cares what instance you use.
Ok. I’m cranky because my kid missed the bus today and work was stressful and it just reminds me how the dude who made world is also an unremarkable middle aged white man like myself. Someone has to be a grownup and pay the bills, that’s all, and if you are losing your mind over world blocking piracy then that someone most likely isn’t you.
Why are you so mad that user are mad? These people made a new home (free of corporate oversight (fuck spez)) and now corporate bs is leaking in and we are pissed. Makes sense to me. Seeing the mods mock users asking questions is asinine.
So I switched instances, which was mildly inconvenient.
Nobody gives a fuck about you kiddo missing the bus mate. Maybe keep it in your lane. Don't post if your home life is so rocky that you sound like a chud.
Did you ever really believe everything were saying on here wasn't already monitored by corps? If the threat of being sued is corporate BS then this place has been infiltrated since day 1.
Corporate bs lol that is deluded. My whole point is that the decision was made by regular people who make zero money from this for practical reasons that are reasonable. Letting off steam just because, don’t mean to make you feel attacked but fuck you too guy. There was no need to say that.
It opens with a personal attack on the intelligence of a group of "stupid fuckers," and you don't see any narcissism? No wonder people fall for their games.
I know the amount of legal liability you expose yourself to as an instance hoster is incomprehensible by your room temperature iq but you have to shut the fuck up.
If you still want to argue, try selfhosting your instance. At least you'll learn a thing or two about docker and the linux command line.
It's not thought police, go host your own instance like I do if you care that much, fuck I'll help you set it up. Jesus you people are insane sometimes.
No, calling protective measures fascism/thought controlling/etc is in fact closer to thought controlling than that in itself. And besides you can easily bypass this ban, which wasn't done in secret but with a public announcement.
Lol, do I need to be protected from the pirates? Am I going to be taken away by the dirty criminals? Is this decreed for my own good? What will you do if I continue to object?
If it's stupid, then why must you resort to the violence of abusive language? Your defenses have broken down. You're reduced to the bare essence of your own argument. A crying child behind a digital mask.
It's really sad living in a world where people don't realize that narcissism is a set of behaviors and not an insult. That's what we get for letting Republicans destroy education.
So switch to an instance that doesn't block them? That's the whole point of federation. I've already jumped instances once, and I'm probably going to a second time.
Except it's an original idea, and I am right. I've seen colonization enough times in my life to know how it works on every level. You don't know what you can't see, and you're trusting an authority to determine what's appropriate for you to know. Today it's piracy, tomorrow obscenity, the next day political enemies. There's only one way this goes. Authority is anti-intellectual because free thought runs counter to blind obedience.
It has authority over every user that has an account on its server. The more it chooses to wield that power, the more authoritarian it becomes. This isn't my only account, but abandoning a frontier to the political right isn't my style. I'll continue to do what I want to do until they use violence to remove me.
Talking about finger pointing without actually breaking down their argument doesn't seem constructive and makes you sound like op hit home with their description.