Except they’ve already attempted this against much bigger fries, and lost. The precedence goes the other way.

I think comparing a community you aren’t a member of (and clearly don’t understand) to dogs is the sort of mentality I was hoping Lemmy could be an escape from.

But to reiterate a comment from my last post that you are clearly still not understanding, no piracy occurs in these dbzer0 communities. These are communities where people just discuss the news of the day as it pertains to piracy.

Whatever you’re finding by googling piracy is absolutely the sort of stuff that’s going to end in you being part of a botnet, though. Good lord is that a crusty and dangerous way to go about it.

Again, there was no pirated content in these communities. None, zilch, nada, zip, zero. If that’s what you’re going to hang you’re entire argument on then you’ve got nothing at all to complain about, it does not exist there.

Your ABC is basically a non sequitur, nobody was turning lemmy.world (or dbzer0) into a torrent tracker.

All social media has some people who pirate and talk about piracy on them, all of them. That does not make 4chan some special gateway to piracy that facebook, reddit, twitter, etc. aren’t also.

There’s nothing 4chan-like about them, or me. I’ve never used 4chan. I just like to research things before condemning them, which I realize can be a rare trait.

Lawsuits are coming to Lemmy, and there’s literally nothing we can do to stop it. All social media is facing the same crisis of liability, and republicans in America are dead set on killing the rules that currently protect them.

Lemmy.world is always at risk of dumb lawsuits for defedirating exploding heads (“silencing conservative voices in social media”), god knows how many asshole patent trolls, plus their huge gaping GDPR non-compliance.

The EU could literally destroy this all tomorrow if they wanted. Driving up the user base, driving up donations, and acquiring their own legal team is the only way any big instance is going to stick around by this time next year.

These communities do not host pirated content, and they weren’t removed on the presumption that they do. They are communities that pirates used to discuss piracy. And yes, as you probably aren’t aware most websites that actually do host pirated content (or torrents to pirated content, let’s not split hairs) are 100% donation based. The communities which most enable piracy are the communities most supported solely through donations. Pirates do a lot of donating to keep their hobby going.

Personally I’d be thrilled to see people who go off half cocked, don’t understand what they’re complaining about, and don’t bother to do any research before making pronouncements about whole communities all leave Lemmy. I don’t need this place to be just like reddit.

Lemmy is not a free service, it is a donation-based service, which is a business model which does benefit from having as many users as possible. The more users you have, the more donors you will have among their ranks. Your conception of social media makes sense for reddit and twitter and similar zero-interest-rate-phenomena websites that get by on idiot VC money, but this business model absolutely depends on satisfying the largest possible percentage of users such that the largest possible fraction will convert to donating.

If you think Lemmy is even on their radar when reddit still hosts much bigger communities having all the same conversations, you’re crazy. I would bet they don’t even know we exist yet.

There was no illegal content hosted in any of those communities.

These same communities already existed/exist on reddit with no issues.

The troll responsible for this is from another instance, and has been demanding that all other big instances do this. Maybe take it up with them?

I was convinced OP had made a typo.

Sorry, he’s out of the shower now.

You’re missing Voyager and Lemmios.

Not with sandals.

Until the next big social media fuck up, which neither Spez nor Musk can stop themselves from making.

You’re just here early, and the platform still needs work. It hasn’t even hit 1.0 yet.

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Don’t worry, you won’t be able to afford this anyway.

If I had to guess based on years on reddit, Mastersmacks is on an unstable instance that’s causing him to double post. The other commenters aren’t bots, just unoriginal pranksters hazing Mastersmacks’ double post by copying and pasting.

It’s a dumb thing redditors would do all the time when someone accidentally double posted.

I think you’re far too willing to believe that every consequence of his actions is somehow intended and desired, like he’s playing 4D chess to acquire magic Attention Coins that are somehow going to translate into wealth and power later. The truth is that Elon is an impulsive idiot easily swayed by other idiots on the right, and this negative attention is only going to make it harder for him to ever make back the money he invested in Twitter, which in turn will tank Tesla.

Dang, how did you manage to nail the right font for X in a comment like that?