Piracy - Divisions by zero
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Discuss digital piracy. Official fallback for https://reddit.com/r/piracy [https://reddit.com/r/piracy] Critical Reading: The Many-Headed Hydra [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/marcus-rediker-and-peter-linebaugh-the-many-headed-hydra]

As the lemmy.ml admins expect a heavy load on their servers in the coming days, I’ve decided to run my own lemmy instance to be the dedicated forum for /r/piracy failover.

If you already have an account on lemmy.ml, you can continue using it by accessing the new community via https://lemmy.ml/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

You can also continue posting on this community as well, not going to stop anyone :D

  • rowdy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    2 years ago

    It’s nice to have backups but doesn’t this just fracture the already small lemmy piracy community even more? Maybe running it as a mirror without the possibility to engage would be better.

    Relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/

    • raeeee@lemmy.mlEnglish
      172·
      2 years ago

      This is my biggest complaint with Lemmy — I’m exhausted having to join the same communities over and over again. I wouldn’t doubt this could be a huge barrier to incoming refugees. Multi-Lemmy can’t come fast enough!

    • Divided by Zer0@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      I think it’s ok to have both. Eventually this will be implemented which will make this moot: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

      But also, I think lemmy won’t be able to handle the load well and they won’t hear my advice on how to prepare, so I think it’s better I take responsibility for the community I’ve been nurturing for the past 10 years, myself

      • rowdy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        You’re not wrong about the load.

        Until that’s implemented (which is great btw, didn’t know that was coming) - my concern is Reddit refugees will see ghost town communities and just head back to Reddit. If we try getting our small community to appear more united, it’ll encourage others to ditch Reddit all together.

        As for the multi-lemmy feature - is that gonna be something we can just one click subscribe to? Or we’ll need to build out the multi ourselves? If the latter, then the concern about new users seeing ghost towns still stands.

    • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chatEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      Yes, but lemmy.ml went down today, before the blackout, and way ahead of the API shutdown. It WILL go down again due to the load.

      This might fragment the community, but a dedicated instance by a r/Piracy mod is better than relying on one that could go down at any moment. Eventually, people will just use the new one and it won’t matter. I think this is a good call.

      This is part of the reason I made my own instance. It’s now my responsibility to keep my own account functioning, not someone else’s. Anyone’s server going down won’t prevent me from using Lemmy or making comments.

      • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Besides with piracy fracturing is good, imo. Putting all our eggs in one basket when we’re flagrantly breaking international laws is kind of a dumb move. There’s a reason every torrent you download has a billion trackers attached to it regardless of where you download it.

    • ASCIIansi@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      In the long run forking is a good thing. If there isn’t enough interest then the “problem” will take care of itself. This is foss after all.

      • rowdy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        Ok? Your point? It’s still more than one community.

        It’s gonna be more important than ever to appear active and engaging if we want people to convert from Reddit. It’s not going to look enticing if you need to potentially look around at multiple subs to see the content that used to be on one.

        • salarua@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          the point is that it should be common practice to crosspost to multiple communities. besides, subscriptions are free. you can subscribe to all communities at once

          • ASCIIansi@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            you can subscribe to all communities at once

            I like this idea. It reminds me of what reddit was like for the first 3 years before subs and mods were introduced.

  • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chatEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Anyone else having issues federating with that instance? It looks like it only wants to talk to lemmy.ml, I can’t seem to add it to my instance. I’ve added other instances just fine 🤔

    • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m also trying to subscribe to it from my instance but the community doesn’t appear even after searching for it several times. My home instance is listed as federated in lemmy.dbzer0.com’s instances list.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      That’s strange. I had initially set lemmy.ml in the allowed lost when I was troubleshooting why federation wasn’t working but it’s long removed. If you have an idea where I should check I can take a look

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I think it just took a while I managed to see it federated in many other communities