All the piracy subs I can find are dead, quiet, or too niche. I’d love to be part of an effort to bring reliable and maintained information about how to safely pirate to lemmy. It’s actually one of the most frustrating things about switching from reddit. Are we puritanical here or something? If we had active piracy scenes I pretty much wouldn’t have to be on reddit at all anymore.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    592·
    3 days ago

    TIL .world blocks more communities than I though.

    I mean, I don’t agree with everything dbzer0 (the instance) stands for, but it stands for freedom of speech and I’m with that.

    It sounds like you want an account on dbzer0. You don’t need to give up your .world account or leave .world; the nice thing about federation is you can actually be on multiple instances. It’s kind of pointless in a way, but if your instance does something you don’t like, you can still federate through another instance. dbzer0 is my main/home instance (I have one other because I was PieFed-curious), but for .world and other bigger instance users, it’s a good side instance to keep an account with.

    Another instance of all of this is that most instances defederate from the NSFW instance, so if you make an account there, your access to NSFW content is ensured. (Most defederate them for a good reason. I’ve never seen them post straight up CSAM, but they post stuff that blurs the lines. I think (and want to believe) they’re on the legal side, but I believe the confusion and questionable nature is intentional. Which is why some instances have defederated them, in case they cross that line (or maybe they have before).

        • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 day ago

          Exactly. In this case it was db0 users, who had the door shut in front of them and wanted to fight back.

          It‘s totally fine for Lemmy instances to restrict speech in whatever way they like. That’s kind of the point of the fediverse.

          The more restrictions an instance has, the less free speech it allows.

          The right to free speech is about the government restricting speech. Human groups like Lemmy instances and communities always restrict speech in one way or another, as in manners, what topics and opinions are deemed appropriate, etc. That‘s by necessity.

          There’s also a constant push and pull going on about what’s considered acceptable and not acceptable speech in every group. The political overtone window is an example of that.

          Let’s be specific to db0 in this context. Defederating feddit.org isn’t about regulating speech on db0, it’s a political power move. It‘s trying to influence speech regulation on feddit.org itself and indiscriminately bans feddit.org users from db0, regardless of what they have ever said. This is an attempt to discredit speech, that’s considered main stream in Germany. It also affects users from Germany the most, again indiscriminately.

          Feddit.org didn’t demand any restriction on speech on other servers on the other hand. They simply have rules db0 doesn’t like.

          So this move by db0 is directly aimed against free speech of others, and their ability to regulate speech as they deem appropriate. So characterizing db0 as pro free speech is not a good fit.

          To db0‘s credit, their community !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com where people can complain about moderation policies around the fediverse is pro free speech. It highlights arbitrary application of rules, abuse of mod power, makes unwritten rules visible. It’s great that it exists. Certainly one of the best communities on the fediverse.