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Piracy

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Welcome to /c/piracy

No netflix or streaming services landlubbers allowed, this is pirates territory.

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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

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[–] rowdy@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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/

[–] rlhe@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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!

[–] rowdy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I hear ya. For us more technically inclined folk, it’s an inconvenience. For more layman folk, it’s completely unapproachable.

[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm with you there. Lemmy really doesn't seem like it's ready for primetime yet.

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[–] db0@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ASCIIansi@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

meh.. the same problem exists on reddit.

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.ml 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rowdy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.xyz 1 points 1 year 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.pub 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 🤔

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year 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

[–] Andreas@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year 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.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure what the issue was, but I was able to federate just now. I searched for the link to the community rather than the ! notation, but regardless I'm connected!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago
[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm searching with those terms and it's not connecting me.

[–] ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Weird ... I did the search on Lemmy.world and the only link it gave me was to a different server. I appreciate your help!

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.house 1 points 1 year ago

Will this be linked in the sidebar of the Lemmy.ml community or set as a pinned post?~~___~~

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