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    Ayo I’m in the screenshot letsa fucking GOOOOOOOOOO-

    For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username) and has spent his time on [email protected] continuously spamming heavily transphobic, homophobic, and objectifying sexist “memes”. Just about every one of his alts is now banned but I’m sure more will pop up.

    Now, why the fuck he cares so much about pirates at this point, I haven’t a clue…

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        Doing the lord’s work. What a shitfest of a modlog, real winner this guy is

        Edit: dear God he keeps MAKING MORE. This dude seriously needs to get a life or something

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        Yeah we banned them on reddthat 2 days ago. I’m glad to see I’m not an outlier. Initially we should a 7 day ban should suffice. But then that user decided to message the admin directly and insult them.

        Probably the fastest way to get your account banned.

        Edit: The message in question. 👀 (Attempted spoiler open if you dare)

        ! Screenshot_20230816-204901!<

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          you have all the qualities of a womanly woman

          real “breasted boobily” energy

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          I believe the spoiler tag is the following on Lemmy

          ::: spoiler spoiler label
          sh*t to hide
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          spoiler label

          sh*t to hide

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        I love arguing with people, I’ll even argue points I don’t necessarily believe, but that’s not the same as trolling. The difference is doing it in good faith

        Trolls aren’t trying to convince anyone or engage in debate, they’re in it to russle jimmies, own the libs, or whatever. There’s not really an intellectual aspect to it, it’s arguing on emotion

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        Oh. Oh that makes so much more sense. His sad little idea of vengeance is to now attack anything piracy related and get dbzero ostracized from LW just because pirates have more morals than he does lol

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        Oh wow, he’s an even bigger loser than I remember on Reddit, or maybe I just didn’t trigger him at the time (maybe he would’ve reacted differently if I was trans or at least if it was clear to him).

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        Out of curiosity, just someone not supporting trans people or lgbtq are getting banned or they are taking asshole behaviour and spewing hate speech?

        Edit: good fucking world. I am not against lgbtq. I am supporting it. I am a bi curious guy. I am all in for their civil rights. I was asking a question about why that guy was banned. For asshole behaviour or just having a different opinion. I don’t believe just for telling someone doesn’t care about lgbtq is not a reason for ban.

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          is “not supporting someone” your newspeak for being asshole? because i am pretty sure that any group of people doesn’t give a flying fuck about you or anyone else not “supporting them”, just let them be and they will be happy.

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            My experience is that when someone discovered they need certain civil rights but don’t have them, often staring down thr barrels of police service pistols, then yes, they give all the flying fucks in the universe about being supported.

            This is one of those reasons that Leopards Ate My Face is a known trope and community. Sadly, the ones who empathize already have their share of leopard teeth marked scars.

            Given I and many people I know are not going to survive genocide in the US, if ever it goes full post-Wannsee, I have little patience for anyone who does not stand at least against the transnational white power movement (aka the white Christian nationalist movement). That includes even conservatives who wish the GOP would less extreme like in the Nixon and Reagan years. That train was always going to inevitably lead to the political crisis in the US, today.

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              you missed my point and you wrote three angry paragraphs about it, good for you! 🤣

              My experience is that

              my experience is that when someone tries to put inequality sign between being an asshole and “not supporting them”, he is trying to make an excuse for being an asshole.

              what do you even mean by “supporting them”? do you bring them food and your old clothes every sunday or something? how do you express on the internet that you “don’t support” someone/something?

              when i am indifferent to a topic, whatever that topic is, i don’t feel the need to go on the internet and express that indifference. when i talk about something, it is either because i am for or against it. so when you are being called for being an asshole, you weren’t just “not supporting them”, whoever them is in the context, you were probably an asshole and now you are trying to mask it.

              (to prevent further confusion - i am aware you are not the person i originally replied to, so any “you” in this text is just a figure of speech)

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            What I’m curious is, how did that asshole get accepted on lemmy.dbzer0 but was able to be weeded out on literature.cafe like shouldn’t it have been obvious to the dbzer0 reviewer what kind of person he was from the registration form? Of coarse I’m assuming he was honest on the forms, I guess technically anyone can lie on the form and then turn around and spit in your face once accepted.

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          Well, there’s a pretty wide spectrum in “not supporting”. Can range between “cool bro, not my thing but you do you just leave me out of it”, which is a rational albeit reserved response… or you could be like Bungiefan, who spams memes calling transgender people pedophiles (multiple times).

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          Someone actively spewing hate speech in addition to repeated attempts to troll the communities it posts to

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        That would explain why he’s such a snob about piracy on his Reddit subs. For context on Reddit this person (pretty sure they’re the same person) banned me from a sub he moderates (I believe it was r/3dshacks) and he tried to get me banned from r/EmulationOnAndroid and also weirdly enough r/teenagers he failed at getting me banned from them by the way because those subs aren’t anti-piracy bungie stans like he is, simply put they don’t care.

        But yeah he was a real loser, I think he got removed from most of the subs he moderated by Reddit though, and the participation in the protest has all but killed the remaining Sub. From Allmighty powermod to a pathetic whiny troll (though I guess he still was a whiny troll before, he just seemed more respectable from the outside).

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            It’s been happening to a lot of powermods on Reddit so probably. I should note that as far as I’m aware this guy is the only one who decided to harass lemmy for it.

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          From r/3dshacks I could understand, but from r/EmulationOnAndroid??? they be pirating emulators on that sub, they do not care lmao

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            Keep in mind he isn’t even a mod there, he was trying to get me banned because he was under the delusion that they cared as much about Piracy as he did, they didn’t end up banning me, but he did argue with me for a while, even said that Citra Devs support his harassment, before quickly trying to retract it.

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      The troll doesn’t care, at all. It got banned clearly or it would be trolling here directly, it’s retaliation. Child psychology will tell you everything you’d need to know about that “user”.

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        Maybe we shouldn’t feed that troll ?

        I think in that case a shadowban would be the best way to do it. Or an IP ban if that’s possible.

        In any case this is giving him even more reason to keep on harassing people for attention.

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          An entire instance just fed the troll, pretty sure the cats out of the bag on this one…

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      These are the alts, counts, scores, and ban status my instance is aware of:

           name     |      domain      | banned | posts | comments | post_score | comment_score 
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       Bungiefan_ak | lemmy.world      | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | lemmy.dbzer0.com | t      |     0 |        2 |          0 |           -14
       Bungiefan_ak | startrek.website | t      |     0 |        0 |        -35 |            -4
       Bungiefan_ak | reddthat.com     | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | lemm.ee          | t      |     0 |        7 |          0 |          -119
       Bungiefan_ak | lemdro.id        | f      |     0 |        0 |          0 |           -22
       Bungiefan_ak | geddit.social    | f      |     0 |        0 |          0 |           -30
       Bungiefan_ak | sopuli.xyz       | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | lemmy.ca         | t      |     0 |        0 |          0 |             0
       Bungiefan_ak | sh.itjust.works  | t      |     0 |        7 |          0 |          -287
      
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      For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username)

      Spending that much money and time stanning for fucking Bungie of all decaying and bloated and corrupt treat companies is really something. pathetic

      and has spent his time on [email protected] continuously spamming heavily transphobic, homophobic, and objectifying sexist “memes”.

      OF FUCKING COURSE. bridget-pride-stay-mad

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      For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username)

      I mean, this is one of the benefits of the lemmyverse - using the same username across different instances. It’s not subversive.

      That’s not to lend a defence of this guy - just didn’t want having Lemmy alts presented as a bad thing.

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        Having Lemmy alts is not a bad thing. Using them to circumvent bans very much is, tho.

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      that guy is the most succesfull troll in history. he single-handedly created havoc that big that russian trollfarm wouldn’t have to be ashamed for and you continue to give him audience. just ban him and move on.

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        Hexbear is one of the oldest lemmy instances, but only recently started federating.

        Are you suggesting that for the last 3+ years, someone was running a troll farm where the trolls could only talk to each other?

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          not sure if you are serious, but no, that’s not what i am suggesting.

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            Oh, sorry then, I must have misunderstood.

            Since federation, a lot of libs who’ve never encountered a leftist opinion have been calling us russian or chinese bots for not supporting the latest imperialist adventures.

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              Literally no one mentioned hexbear, or leftism in general, before you did. Quite a victim complex you got there.

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              don’t take me wrong, i am pretty sure i am not in the same boat with comrade who thinks that “not supporting the latest imperialist adventures” is some clever newspeak, but your comment was first time i have heard about “hexbear” - whatever that is.

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      How do you people find these alts. I scroll by, like or don’t, but I have no idea if they are related.

      Do you guys have a 7th sense or something?

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    Corporations when some dude steals a copy of a 30 year old movie: 😡

    Corporations when they steal billions from their workers salaries every year: 🤑

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    Does anybody have the greentext that goes something like

    Pirate game

    Company loses $60 because it’s theft

    Company regains $60 after deleting game from hard drive

    Pirate one million copies, company bankrupt from massive theft

    Buy insolvent company for cheap

    Delete all game copies, company profitable again

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      The companies don’t need plebs to protect them. If anyone should be willing to lay their body for them it’s their shareholders.

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    yall, this dude tried signing up to my instance a few nights ago. yall wanna see why many communities have registration approvals? see below. warning for nsfw language

    NSFW language

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      Still laughing at the vast amount of people coming from reddit and expecting only chill people to be on lemmy. Like lemmy users are somehow immune to toxicity.

      It’s less toxic overall but we (or mostly the moderators) will have to fight them all the time.

      At least it will improve the moderation tools which is always a good thing.

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        When I realized it was that dude who tried signing up to my instance I lost my shit laughing, if he was screened prior it’s obvious he wouldn’t have gotten in. This is precisely what happens when you focus on growth over organically cultivating a healthy community.

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          I have no proof but I think lemmy.world will be monetized at some point.

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            If that is true in any way whatsoever, that is a completely moronic long term goal. Lemmy devs themselves have encouraged instances who do such a thing to defederate. I don’t see how realistically advertising or monetization would be done not only without immense privacy concerns that would likely affect the rest of the fediverse but without major protests and mass defederation. The backlash against it would be immense, not just on lemmy but across the fediverse itself.

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        Lemmy is like every social medium since the dawn of time: a cross-section of humanity… the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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          yeah he caused huge arguments in the biggest instance, the guy is talented.

          Too bad that “talent” is being a huge asshole and getting the biggest reactions possible, instead of something useful.

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      That is legitimately one of the most disgusting things I’ve read, what is wrong with this person, why would he write that as an application.

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        It came after I was arguing with weirdo antisemites in c/atheistmemes so I assume it was because of that but I have no idea and don’t really care to know that much

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          At least he was stopped at the registration level, it likely wouldn’t have been pretty if he was allowed to run wild there like he did on other places.

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    Lmao this is the guy that first lead to them banning the communities right?

    Love that lemmy.world seems to be making their moderation strategy based off of a troll with at least 4 alts…

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        Made them show their true face and flaws. Who knows, maybe the troll is even someone from their staff on an alt.

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        He didn’t fool anyone, he just seems to have caught them acting like hypocrites and made them either put up or shut up. If you want to enforce rules, you need to actually enforce the rules. If discussions of illegal things is against the rules that you made, then clearly an entire community built around illegal piracy is against the rules. Him pointing that out is a big-brain move that you would hope the admins would have gone “ah you got us. We’ll change that rule to not be so restrictive”, but instead they went “well shit, we’ll remove it instead of changing our stupid rules”.

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    What a fucking loser crying about intellectual property. Love live piracy and anarchy. Be gay do crime! 🏴 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ yo ho ho 🦜 nikopirate custom emoji

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      its actually amazing how internet culture went from this anarcho-utopianism where information just wants to be free, maaan to reddit style races to the normie bottom. who gives a shit about intellectual property other than bowtie spinning economist dickheads and the beltway lanyard class?

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        In fairness, I think it’s because the tech barrier of entry went down, WAYYY down. “Free Data” is an easy sell to people who were dialing into usenet in the 90’s, and us stupid ameteur hackers who would break into systems like they were puzzles because we thought it was cool and the maximum penalty was a fine and community service (the good old days, we all did it at least once and thought we were Zero Cool… unless we thought Zero Cool was lame, whatever). A lot of the people who think IP jives well with the internet were the ones who looked at me weird when I said I had online friends circa 2000, and who couldn’t understand how I couldn’t make some party because I “had to spend Saturday hanging out on IRC for my D&D campaign”

        Even more technical folks now, they just never lived what made the internet beautiful when it was smaller. Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit. They don’t remember how this dark storm of people’s hobbies turning into other people’s IP, people like Bill Gates stealing the foundations of technology to build his empire (for all the good he does now, he was truly evil to his core).

        Ok, old-fart rant over.

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          Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit

          FOSS has always been about “free as in speech”, and Stallman has said that it’s more ethical to illegally download closed-source software than to pay for it.

          FOSS vs. proprietary is tangential to the discussion over filesharing, anyway, because it addresses different issues. FOSS isn’t good because it’s zero-cost, it’s good because it respects user freedoms.

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            FOSS has always been about “free as in speech”,

            If you’re being pedantic, then yes, because Stallman coined “Free Software” as a term and that rolled into the acronym “FOSS”. If you’re talking about what we actually thought, then no.

            FOSS vs. proprietary is tangential to the discussion over filesharing, anyway, because it addresses different issues. FOSS isn’t good because it’s zero-cost, it’s good because it respects user freedoms.

            From a totally different angle, it’s good because it does more to empower innovation and creative expression than IP ever did, yet innovation and creative expression were always the stated goals of IP. Because of that, it’s a lot less tengential a discussion than things like filesharing, which also empowers creative expression. Cost-free, unlimited access to art is the best way to get art in the hands of everyone. And that is “free as in Beer”.

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          It’s funny, I’ve never met anybody who’d have that kind of experience and use the word “hacker” in this meaning simultaneously.

          A lot of the people who think IP jives well with the internet were the ones who looked at me weird when I said I had online friends circa 2000

          This checks out.

          Back when “FOSS” was “Free as in Beer” and fuck that Richard Stallman with his “free as in speech” bullshit.

          I remember exactly the opposite, people being much more acutely aware of the difference, and Stallman being much more popular than now.

          people like Bill Gates stealing the foundations of technology

          Clarification? Movies about Steve Jobs excluded.

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            It’s funny, I’ve never met anybody who’d have that kind of experience and use the word “hacker” in this meaning simultaneously.

            I’m slightly too young to use “hacker” the traditional old-MIT way. Maybe only by 2-3 years. I was a stupid kid playing with linux in the mid-90’s and I hacked into a stupid municipal dialup BBS and got root, then neither did nor changed anything because it was “cool” to prove I could figure it out. Then “Hackers” came out and I ran that movie on repeat for a few weeks and then moved on to actually learning to code.

            I remember exactly the opposite, people being much more acutely aware of the difference, and Stallman being much more popular than now.

            There’s those of us who were avoiding Redhat for shittier distros (like Slackware back then imo) because we didn’t want to buy anyone else’s beer for us to contribute for free. Maybe we were fewer than it seemed. I was that ugy giving out Ubuntu Warty CD’s having this weird pipe-dream of the tech world all going free-as-in-beer (yeah, I know they’re a for-profit. A lot of people didn’t get that back then and just saw a better Debian). Maybe again it relates to the exact date?

            Clarification? Movies about Steve Jobs excluded.

            Mr. Gates started back when “hacker” didn’t mean “hacker” (as you point out). He would pick up freely-given tech early on, and was then one of the first to start crying IP complaints and asserting his ownership of his product. Wherever you stand on the opinion, Gates’ Open Letter to Hobbyists started his really terrible reputation, since many hobbyests accurately alleged he built his business on tech they were using/granting for free. I never knew the facts of the 1977 BASIC case where he was sued over ownership of BASIC and won, but then in the 80’s he notoriously started his attitude of embrace, extend, extinguish. Everything from his behavior related to DOS, his ripping off Lotus Notes, etc. One could simply say “he was a good businessman” and they’re allowed to feel that way. If you say “hey, you can have as much of my water as you want for free” and I drain your lake so you have to buy water back from me, technically what I’m doing is legal. That’s basically what many people felt Gates did.

            EDIT: And I don’t have good references, but I remember some quotes from him as his reputation got bad, that the hobbyists shouldn’t have been giving software out for free anyway. That the real problem was that they should have been demanding money for their work and/or keeping their ownership. One could argue his behavior was some of what spearheaded the carefully-crafted OSS licensing in the 80’s.

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              It is unspeakably bizarre to me that people who know how to turn on a computer forgot that Gates is Satan’s personal programmer at some point during the 21st century. I take it as an article of faith and my younger Millennial and Zoomer friends think I’m bullying a nice old man.

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        for real! I just noticed a show I wanted to watch Star Trek: Prodigy has been removed from Paramount+ for no fucking reason. The only reason I have that shit is because i’m a huge trekkie and I want them to make more and I think that Paramount+ is the only way they make any money for Trek and my roommate pays for it. Thank for for torrents. The show isn’t even watchable from any streaming service atm so I HAVE to pirate it. Normally I don’t for Star Trek simply because of how many episodes all the shows are combined but fuck it.

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    Piracy of software is always moral in the face of proprietary software.

    They have stolen so much from us that we have all right to revolt.

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      Intellectual property is denial of media rights to the public.

      Theft is justified in the face of capitalism.

      Those who live in precarity, poverty, homlessness or hunger are justified to do whatever violence is required to survive.

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      Yup. Folks looking for stuff to be salty about. Those admins were protecting their hides and had every right to do so. Hosting carries risks. What could have been handled better was communicating this (a day or three beforehand + not on Discord lmao). The people acting like this is some sort of unforgivable problem are just being dorks. Don’t like it? Pop onto a new instance. It’s easy and is a perfect example as to why Lemmy is great.

      Edit: Worth mentioning that the piracy community is among the most active groups on the entire platform. As a viable alternative to reddit, I don’t think piracy being the face of Lemmy is a great look. Newcomers may start on LW and never need or want this community. Those who want it WILL find it.

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        Huh, wow, someone talking sense on the subject and not getting downvoted to oblivion.

        Some instances will be more averse to legal risk than others. Some will also lean more towards “censorship” (showing bigots the door) whilst others will be “free speech encouraged” (full of them). That’s the beauty of the fediverse. Pick your poison. Why go all pitchforks and DDOS attacks etc against an instance that doesn’t share your values when it’s piss easy to just switch to one that does?

        (I’m somewhere down the middle on the piracy subject. I believe in supporting small individual developers trying to feed their kids. But Adobe and the like can go fuck themselves)

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      I’ve even been seeing the old “could you kindly (deliberately obtuse bad-faith request to “prove” something “objectively” where any evidence given is a “biased” source or “has a narrative”)” sea lioning tactic. They even do the smug “I’ll wait” follow-up line. smuglord

      One even asked me to objectively prove that they were sea lioning and threw a slang dictionary at me (that for some reason only included a weird and obscure “stalker” definition and not the bad faith evidence demands) in a way that was sea lioning the idea of sea lioning. berdly-smug

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    I buy most of my content, steam mostly for games, have spotify, buy music from bandcamp for DJ sets, at least my favorites, have family netflix, HBO, disney +, although I don’t use those as much since they are mostly full of crap. Sometimes I even buy/rent a movie if it is not available in those and I can’t find any torrent, or just out of convenience. I produce music and buy all my audio software (ableton and fuckton of plugins) because I don’t want to deal with the hassle of using pirated versions. I buy ebooks every now and then too, although with that I also admittely pirate some, especially when the author is dead, in which case I really don’t feel any guilt for pirating it. I also use patreon often and support creators that way.

    I still think piracy needs to be an option, so streaming services can’t have their way and we are just forced to use their enshittified platforms. I avoid it, because I understand not everything can be open source, and nothing get’s done without revenue. I don’t pirate from small authors/creators.

    All the while musicians get basically fucking nothing from huge streaming services profiting from their labor. Series get cancelled left and right despite good reception because they were not profitable enough, although still profitable, because netflix is only interested making next big hit. Games are filled with microtransactions and kernel level tracking (anti cheat), forced online features in single player game and sometimes games one bought are just made unavailable, like with old mobile games (case in point, dead space mobile). Professional software is often moved to predatory subscription models and paywalled updates to the software, like Avid, Waves.

    And people still cirlejerk about piracy being the worst thing to intellectual property ever. Problem isn’t piracy, problem is small creators are payed so little from listens/views/whatever that the can barely get by, and have to make alternate source of income via patreon or some other stuff. Piracy won’t even make a dent in that.

    Luckily in every category some people/companies are pushing back but all of this is just case in point why we need piracy. When I get around releasing music/games, I don’t mind piracy at all, might even put my own tunes on pirate sites out of spite. Current intellectual property laws are fucking joke and only benefit the largest creators in their respective fields.

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        Best part is when they start pretending to be stupid, after already having demonstrated they aren’t. Which then paradoxically proves that they are.

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              you bet they are, it took them a month to “communicate” and “decide with community” to defed exploding heads, allowing them to grow 3x in the meantime, entire week for rammy site, but hexbear, a much larger instance that wasn’t caught proselytizing outside, got defederated “preemptively”. what the fuck is this bullshit?

              they do have pretty strong biases, but i’m guessing they got caught in their own circlejerk that tells them that all of that is normal. just look at any pinned post on .world and go into comments

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        Why did they defederated in the first place? Did something happens with another instance due to copyright problems? Or they just got scared for no reason?

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          To be clear they just blocked the piracy community, it isn’t a full defederation from dbzer0

          Lemmy.world has a rule against illegal content. This troll was trolling and got mad at dbzer0 for banning them. The troll then demanded the admins of lemmy.world defed from dbzer0 because piracy is illegal, and they blocked this and several other piracy communities at the troll’s request.

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    Gonna commit copyright infringement later, just to spite this poor man even more

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    Still, one of the key aspects of piracy is discreteness and these debates and notoriety don’t help with that. Piracy does not look for you, you look for it, if you know how to find out how. The last thing I want is for every single Lemmy thread about netflix to have a top comment saying piracy is better than streaming.