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What happened to the main Piracy community (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by techgearwhips@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

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[–] asuka@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is allowing access to piracy resources the same as hosting piracy resources? Is Comcast at risk of being shut down because they didn't block everyone's access to RARBG? This is largely rhetorical; the answer is "no". lemmy.world's admins are not being honest.

[–] superkret@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Through federation, lemmy.world would host the content because it pulls all content from all federated instances.

[–] TalkingCat@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

There is no content in these communities, they are for discussion. Linking to content is against the rules in fact.

[–] asuka@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure that's true? All content from all other federated servers are hosted on all other servers? That certainly doesn't sound right; I thought that the fediverse protocol just allowed us access to other servers running the protocol, not that our instance actually runs content from their instance.

[–] Jonjanjer@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, this is how federation works and it's the main point all those users that are bitching about the move do not understand. LW does not care about piracy, they are afraid of legal consequences, because with the federation protocol you are hosting all content of other instances. It's not embedded, it's mirrored, so there is no legal difference between the origin instance and the federated instance.

[–] Mark_is_on_his_droid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Comcast has money to defend itself. That's a huge difference.