Likely a combination of the community having more tech savvy individuals + realising Reddit would fuck over r/Piracy eventually, making more of them follow dbzer0 here when they were overthrown.
Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That’s how I found it.
100% this, there isn’t even a shadow of doubt
Plus the downfall of the lemmy.fmhy.ml server, which had a pretty big and active piracy community too.
What happened to them?
govt of mali let use freenom .ml domains, then freenom removed them for reasons, one of reasons being that it got traction. (?) they have moved since to fmhy.net
Oh yes, I have heard a lot of cases like this related to freenom. They deactivate domains that get traction and resell them at a premium (mostly to spammy ad networks that hoard domains).
Reddit desperately wants its piracy community back, not knowing that the ship has sailed arr
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Same thing that megalinks did when they got kicked off reddit
Steam underground ftw
I don’t have to keep saying “that one underground russian forum” anymore
Piracy-friendly subreddits are not looked kindly by the advertisers that fund Reddit now. I think you’re right.
Hah they want the piracy community (to help “engagement” etc), until they don’t.
You’re 100% right and I’m sorry I didn’t continue my russian lessons :-/
Skolka stoich cofea?
:-)
Hell ya dbzer0 represent!! ( ••)>⌐■-■ (⌐■■)
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This is the way
My understanding is that there had been an ongoing concern on /r/piracy that they would get shut down at some point, that this had been a concern in the past, and so the other stuff like the API restrictions and the rest of the spez drama was kind of just adding to the big factor pushing people away – that the community could vanish at any time.
The lead mod on /r/piracy also set up a dedicated instance – there was definite commitment – made it clear that he was making the move, and was demodded on /r/piracy, so there were factors creating more inertia.
Those are all factors that did not generally exist for other communities.
IPO goals made it seem piracy days on reddit were numbered, so those with foresight were itching for a new place off reddit and leapt at the opportunity to find a new place.
Although good for the active community, I don’t feel like it’s a great advertisement of lemmy for the wider public
Piracy??? I thought this was a Pirates appreciation community!
Exactly! A celebration of sailing on the high seas!
I’m just here for the booty
Eh I think it’s pretty neat. Means a majority of users are tired of or willing to subvert capitalism in some aspect and that gives me hope.
Why is there no lemmy.world community at all? I’m pretty sure it has a lot of big communities
Putting all of the large communities on a single instance is just reddit with more steps. It’s good that one of the larger Lemmy communities is not also on the largest Lemmy instance. Lemmy.world suffers a lot of outages (in part because it’s so centralized), meanwhile this community remains available.
I’m pretty new here, what is an “instance”? And why is it better to have the big communities on different ones rather than one main?
You can think of it like emails. It’d be better to have more choice than just gmail.
An instance is just a way to access Lemmy. Lemmy.world, lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, feddit.uk, etc - you can use any of these to access Lemmy and interact with, and see, all the same content.
It’s a problem because most communities are hosted on lemmy.world at the moment, but if lemmy.world ever dies they’ll die with it.
They need to add account and community migration as soon as possible
To elaborate further from the other comment, it’s a person running a copy of the Lemmy software on their server. I for example am running mine (and seeing this thread) from https://zemmy.cc. Thanks to Federation all of our different servers are able to talk to each other so we can have a shared experience rather than everyone being on one centralized instance managed by one set of administrators (like reddit is).
This provides resilience to the network. If reddit goes down, reddit is down. If lemmy.world goes down, you can still access the content of every community that isn’t on lemmy.world, and if other servers were subscribed to the content on a community from lemmy.world you could still see the content from before the server went offline (and it will resync once it’s back up).
If we put all of our eggs into a single basket, we have a single point of failure. If all of the major communities go to lemmy.world then lemmy.world is that single point of failure. Doing that is effectively just recreating the same issues we had with reddit but with extra steps. By spreading larger communities across servers we ensure that the outage (or permanent closure) of a single instance doesn’t take down half the active communities with it.
That is the reason why I self host my own private instance.
What’s the hardware and network demand like ? I’ve been vaguely thinking of doing so myself.
My friends instance, crystals.rest, is hosted on a $5/mo Linode with 1GB of RAM
The lxc container in Proxmox is at around 500 MB of ram usage, 1.35 GB of network traffic, and less than 1% CPU usage. Although I’m the only one using the instance.
Thanks, appreciated.
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I assume you mean 1.35gb of network data per day ? As opposed to per minute / per second etc
Yeah that is the total amount of network data used since I set it up yesterday.
Just out of curiosity
I have my own instance (gadgetro.id), but it isn’t set to private. Are you still able to browse other accounts on the fediverse from your instance when set to private?
I don’t even know if it’s set to private. If you mean browsing accounts from subscribed communities then yes.
Yup, the Formula 1 community isn’t in there for example.
Lemmy.world is shitting the bed lately, Lemmyverse is not able to collect data from it.
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
Is there any equivalent of lemmyverse for kbin magazines?
I’m subscribed to bother Lemmy communities and kbin magazines of the same name. I’m in kbin.social so I can’t tell you the exact magazine name - I search for the subject, say tech, and then subscribe to all of the groups.
Lemmyverse itself supports Kbin Magazines, just open the menu at the top right corner and hit the option.
OH thank you! That is even more awesome. I didn’t even think to look because of the name of the website has “lemmy” in it lol. This is exactly what I wanted :)
german instances are stable overall, so they can afford the high community user count
So dbzer0.com points to a German server?
I’m interested in how the workload is split up, the database is the weak link right?
Edit: dude, it’s a fast server, GG
dbzer0.com is german yea, so is discuss.tchncs.de and feddit.de: and they are reliable
As soon as reddit started looking into the money /r piracy’s days were numbered.
I own this domain and don’t have anything better to use it for, so it’s a shorter link to the above mentioned community indexer.
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Wtf man, what does it even do? I love you did it though!
Start a clothing fashion design dedicated instance immediately, it’s the law
Ohhh that’s a reason for the mainstream news agencies to make up sensational headlines and demonize the fediverse
That and they cannot control, own, or monetize it.
What the fuck is that commy shit on c/news?
That bothers you but the gay space communism on the technology community doesn’t?
That’s hexbear.net, a tankie instance
Thanks for answer
Ew, why lemmy has so many tankies
Socialis
