The guy who runs the growyourownservices network despite seeming very professional is extremely emotionally biased and hates Lemmy as a software (and seemingly any instances that will choose to run that software, regardless of their affiliation towards the developers).

So he basically refuses to acknowledge the existence of Lemmy and by extension a large portion of the threaded fediverse, and when he does acknowledge it he's talking shit about it.

That makes sense, it must not have enough context due to having never been given training data related to the Hindenburg itself.

Why did it draw the hindenburg as a regular ship? What went wrong here?

I see, that's good. I know that pictrs uploads can get very messy if not immediately handled.

Very neat idea, though I do have a question, are these banners set to upload to the pictrs database or are they set to upload to a fixed location with the pointer in the community set to that location, it might be a better idea to do that i.e. community banner set to i.e. https://dbzer0.com/images/piracybanner/banner.png and have it overwrite that image when replacing without changing the hardcoded link in the communities. I've done this on my other profiles, using a hard-coded link to another site and changing the images there without uploading a new one.

A reason why that could be worth it is because on pictrs the old ones aren't normally deleted and they can accumulate fast. Of course you could also set up automated deletion of the old one on pictrs which would accomplish the same thing but could be a bit more challenging since I've heard pictrs management is a pain on Lemmy in its current state.

because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

It's funny because someone on their team started banning people from that thread for disagreeing with their stance then when called out for it they quietly changed the instance bans for community bans, in an awesome display of pure pettiness one would normally see on Reddit.

When I described the previous removal as LW having a feud with dbzer0, that was why.

Yeah maybe not, it's mostly just Nintendo, I wouldn't put it behind Microsoft to do something similar, though they haven't tried anything yet, and also don't really have any console exclusives anymore (that they care about, most of them are forgotten on Xbox 360).

If you want someone to “fight” against Nintendo, be the change! Do it yourself.

And also probably live in Russia (or another CIS state) you know, like most of the famous crackers who still do this and continue to get away with it. Otherwise they (Nintendo or some other western Corpo) will just do the same thing all over again.

Or you could just have a team there, but it didn't work so well for Gary Bowser, so if you go that route consider the first option.

console manufacturers might start slapping DRM into their consoles

You been living under a rock bud? That's literally the idea of a game console, it's ultimately what separates console gaming from PC gaming.

now sure, this is a piracy sub, but i'm not sure if the yuzu devs are keen into piracy...

They literally sabotage their emulator so it can't play certain games in case of leaks, they're well past that point.

i also wonder if there's any way to fight back. people who dump their legal copies are being screwed as well.

Could develop the emulators from a country that doesn't respect intellectual property rights, it works well enough for Empress, obviously it would absolutely not work out for her if she tried to do what she does in America.

Can those be reconstructed if necessary?

Funny how all the keyboards are turned the wrong way around, facing away from them.

What does the 0.1% of the file contain anyway, if it's a video and most of the data is there it might be either playable or if not it probably might be able to be repairable so it can play, albeit with minor corruption in the damaged part.

I would like big instances block them and create a movement but that’s my POV.

That would be a good idea but honestly until the narrative around de-federation changes that probably isn't going to happen. There's this really weird idea of "user choice" or "freedom of speech" being important on the fediverse. It's weird because, just at an instance level, not even counting federation that isn't a thing, mods can ban you from the communities, admins can ban you from the instance itself, preventing you from even logging in (might be a Data privacy issue to go that far since laws exist allowing people to request and erase information but I digress) so if people don't even have user freedom or freedom of speech on their own instance without federation, why would or should that same concept not extend to federation? I mean ActivityPub was literally built for that purpose in mind, defederation and banning are features of it. It's not like Nostr where the network itself is resistant to censorship from individual nodes. The network allows and even intends for censorship to be used, and honestly one look at Nostr reveals why, when you don't apply a decent level of moderation, the trolls and assholes will rule and dominate.

Defederation needs to stop being viewed as "taking away user choice" and simply seen as something that is up to the admins, just like they can ban users at will, they can defederate at will, no further questions asked.

I feel like many other instances did also shut their doors, wasn't just lemmy.ml, I never tried signing up to dbzer0 back then (didn't come here until after world's big feud over c/piracy) so I don't know entirely what the situation here was like at the time here, I just know that enough instances took the route of either completely closing or very strict application procedures to make it difficult for Redditors migrating here.

I don't deny though that another big part of it definitely was lemmy.world's more centrist mentality and more lenient moderation.

I do hope you are aware that blocking Instances doesn't do anything besides blocking the communities on them.

Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

I apologize if you already knew this, I know that many people don't and are under the impression that it behaves like Defederation. It blocking the communities is the sole and only purpose. They thought blocking users from an instance would be disruptive, and rightfully so.

Fighting spam and astroturfing is something that affects lemmy as a whole ecosystem. Yes it’s more possible with instances which have open registrations but as a counterpoint closed registration also drive people away.

I'm in agreement towards this. The only reason Lemmy.world is so uncomfortably large is that everyone here decided to close registrations when Reddit was having the migration. sh.itjust.works was literally born because of the fact everyone else was either closing off registration entirely or requiring applications.

Call it spam defense or whatever you want but asking people to essentially beg for an account, which is what you're doing, don't whitewash it, increases the barrier to entry and makes it so people don't even want to try joining out of fear of rejection, or worse they try, don't know they were rejected, and think Lemmy is a buggy piece of shit and leave. Maybe it makes automated spam a tiny bit harder and moderation that much lazier and laid back but those who are really commited, the astroturfers, are still going to register and write up applications filled with sweet lies to get you to hit approve, and you will hit approve because they'll seem like normal users.

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com uh, don't take any of this personally, this isn't made to target anyone specifically, I'm just trying to point out how the behavior of other instances in the Fediverse has contributed towards world becoming so uncomfortably large (and ultimately difficult to moderate because of it).

I think a better solution would be to simply ban malicious bot accounts and vote manipulators from the instance, and encourage other instances to do the same. Maybe we could set up something on Fediseer which indexes accounts flagged as bots or abusers to make this easier. If these accounts were banned from many major instances their vote manipulation would only affect Lemmy.world and ones that didn't ban the accounts. Would be better to ban them and purge their votes from the DB than it would to counter them with sock-puppets.

I guess this is how they'll learn about the effects of ruining the experience for moderators and content creators, a majority of Reddit's scabs are consumers so naturally when creators and mods leave quality goes in the toilet.

which reddit was obviously super happy about the pirate sub closing down.

Oddly it wouldn't seem entirely like that since when it shut down they basically forced it to reopen. Which is funny since they dislike it so much, guess the traffic and ad revenue is more important to them.

Late Reply: This is going to sound harsh but it's true. I wouldn't miss it. If Beehaw disappeared tomorrow I probably wouldn't even notice, and I'm sure that would be the case for many other people here. The problem is that because Beehaw has defederated so aggressively from the largest instances and shut its doors to new users, and people just moved on, or didn't notice or care. I spent most of my first days on Lemmy.world and consequently didn't see a majority of the content from Beehaw, but I did see many upset users who had to Migrate from Beehaw due to the defederations since most of the content and communities they wanted access to wasn't available to them on Beehaw.

Since Beehaw didn't (and still doesn't) have community creation enabled it never really had niche communities like other instances did, it is rather forgettable because of that, what most people will remember it for though is the defederations and having to migrate accounts to not be cut off from the rest of the fediverse.

Mainly I just use the one built-in to settings of Gnome, I never torrented on public wifi (most public wifi I've used is too slow to download without chewing up all the bandwith) but the MAC address randomizer seems to work very well, even with the ones that use timed paywalls (where they let you use it for a time then lock your MAC address out and ask you to pay).