Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So how’s it going?

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
    2·
    1 year ago

    Can’t you just use your lemmy.world account to join communities on another instance? Or is leaving a moral stance?

    With their size, I’m wondering if they are starting to get cease and desist notices.

    Edit: oh shit, they defederated an instance because of piracy on that instance? That’s a different ballpark.

    Edit 2: seems they blocked cetain communities on another instance? I didn’t think lemmy had that built in.

    Looks like a bit of discussion here:

    https://lemmy.nz/post/981948

    https://lemmy.nz/post/983194

    • eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      As far as I’m aware discussion of piracy isn’t illegal. I haven’t seen any direct links to content on the dbzero instance (admittedly I haven’t been looking).

      The fact they went along with it after a new account on a different instance asked them to block it is concerning though.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzM
        2·
        1 year ago

        Laws are complicated. As mentioned in another post, the server is hosted in Finland, by a German hosting company, run by a Dutch admin, behind Cloudflare bot protection based in the US. Any of those countries could have a law that makes this illegal.

        But even worse, a comparatively small website run on donations doesn’t need to break a law to get shut down, they just need to have enough legal challenges to make it too costly to continue (they likely could not afford even one court case, even if they were likely to win).

        As an instance admin this stuff is always in the back of my mind. Another reason I’m keen to not grow too quick, so we can sort out these sorts of issues.

        • eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nzEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I get what you’re saying, but it wasn’t like they received a dmca notice or cease and desist. It was just a random new user asking them to do it. I just don’t see how they could have got in trouble immediately without the option to defederate or block those communities in the case of a legal notice.

          In any case piracy communities all know not to post or host any direct links. Even reddit’s piracy subreddit has lasted for a long time.

          I guess the beauty of the fediverse is that it’s simple enough to move to another instance instead of just losing access.

          • Dave@lemmy.nzM
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah it definitely comes across as a bit of an odd sequence of events. I seem to recall there were more examples of similar actions from lemmy.world as well.