• CapnAssHolo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1261·
    2 years ago

    Neat. I tried getting into fediverse a couple time during the last 3 years and everytime I’d get bored after a day or two.

    This time it feels different though. I never imagined there would be this much activity on here. We really oughta thank spez lmao

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
        48·
        2 years ago

        Precisely! And unlike Twitter or Facebook you’re not reliant to other specific people.

        Reddit have us an opening we wouldn’t have had otherwise.

        I think lemmy has the potential to break the fediverse wide open.

        • gk99@kbin.social
          15·
          2 years ago

          Not just Lemmy, since that’s the cool thing federation allows. This is a Lemmy instance and you’re posting from Lemmy, but I’m reading and posting from kbin. Even in its early stages, we’ve got two big different alternatives that share the same content, which is dope.

      • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years ago

        It became pretty much permanent for me, now I’m more on kbin the last few days than Reddit (like at least a 10:1 ratio in terms of minutes spent), where I only use reddit if I need some info that can’t be found anywhere else and that AI can’t answer me. I’m pretty sure even the real “2 days” folks will come here full-time as soon as the API changes go through and most apps for Reddit stop working.

        Federation really helps too because here I get an active flow of interesting posts from this and different instances and communities unlike Reddit where you scroll r/popular once and you’re done for the day.

        I also tend to write much more extensive and informative comments on here than on Reddit, which probably comes with the territory, but I’ve seen it with other people too.

        • Kayzels@lemmy.fmhy.ml
          9·
          2 years ago

          I don’t write extensive and informative comments, but I am posting a lot more comments than I used to on Reddit. It feels more open.

          • rbanerjee@lemmy.sdf.org
            5·
            2 years ago

            Same here. And, as someone father up this thread observed, forcing a big exodus in a short span of time is the Best possible way to bootstrap this migration :)

      • foxofax474@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        yea most definetely. I think the initial momentum is important, with peopel more willing to get used to the new platform and UI lol

      • niktemadur@kbin.social
        6·
        2 years ago

        Each day that passes, your brain makes a wider and wider path for any new format, the place and its’ different rhythm become more familiar and comfortable.

    • dbemol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Personally, I hated Mastodon, its architecture is just no user-friendly and mass adoption is very unlikely. I’m loving Lemmy tbh!

    • Otome-chan@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      This is my experience as well. albeit my other experiences on the fediverse were with mastodon; and the twitter-style of doing things is much harder to feel like you’re getting the content you’re after or feeling like there’s a lot going on.

  • PirateForDaLolz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    62·
    2 years ago

    That’s awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I’m not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we’re probably safer here.

    • bric@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there’ll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there’s no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn’t this one

      • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        18·
        2 years ago

        The instance owner is an anarchist that doesn’t care about copyright. We aint shutting down unless he gets sued, and the case also needs standing. As long as we dont link directly to pirated content, we’re fine.

      • Gatsby@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        2 years ago

        The risk is significantly reduced if the instance its running on and the domain host is in a country that isnt legally obligated to honor DMCA takedowns. Wothout doing research, this instance likely is in a major country, and therefor not its permanent location because of this. but whats different than reddit is we have the capability to host the servers ourself where we want.

        Once(if) its taken down, another instance can be run from a more friendly country and DMCA notices wont have any weight legally.

        The only problem then would be popular home instances going excommunicado with the pirate instance like that bee one did recently

        • qtj@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Even popular home instances going excomunicado isn’t a huge deal, as people can just make an alternative account just for this instance. Jerbora already supports multiple accounts so it’s hardly an inconvenience.

  • collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    59·
    2 years ago

    I’m assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the “fediverse”

          • EuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifeEnglish
            6·
            2 years ago

            The thing you use when you’re lazy as all get out and can’t be bothered to use a VPN. Plus, you get faster download speeds over DDL anyway, so 🤷.

            • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              Shit, on the private tracker I’m on I basically get zero up because everyone’s seedbox has so much more bandwidth than my VPN.

              • solidEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                I have the same issue, that’s why I love private trackers that offer some sort of bonus points for just continuing to seed.

    • Kayzels@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      If I had the money, I would. Alas, I’m a university student with no real source of income.

          • suodrazah@lemmy.nine-hells.netEnglish
            13·
            2 years ago

            4 ARM64 cores, 24GB of RAM and 200GB of storage, and some other resources and older x86, for the low low price of free. 10TB outgoing limit, no incoming limit as far as I know. You can setup one or many VPS using the resources.

            https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

            I have a a full media stack running on one - Plex, Tautulli, Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, Qbittorrent, Jackett among other services like Portainer, YTDL, Traefik. I’ve seen 8+ streams with 4 or 5 720p transcodes, the CPU is pegged but it keeps up.

            For storage I use a combo of services. Rclone, mounting a remote google drive to /mnt/remote. Cloudplow, takes stuff from /mnt/local folder and directly uploads to the remote drive via gdrive API using the same rclone config. And mergerfs, takes the /mnt/remote and /mnt/local folders and combines them into a /mnt/merged folder. The /mnt/merged folder is the main folder for media, downloads, etc. Any writes are first stored in /mnt/local.

            I describe that setup to demonstrate the capacity of a free service, of course much less complex for a seedbox.

            • collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              I know almost nothing about servers but that sounds very capable. Why do they offer it for free? How many lemmy users do you think it can handle?

              • suodrazah@lemmy.nine-hells.netEnglish
                5·
                2 years ago

                Free because you can roll into a paid service easily, it’s a trap really. But if you can stay within the free limits then it’s gold.

                Lots of users. Depends on storage requirements, 200GB could be limiting if you want to host media.

            • dbemol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              I never managed to pass the sign-up form, I gave up with Oracle. If you are able to access it, please abuse their resources the most possible

            • drifty@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              As far as I’m aware you only get a 1 gb ram instance on Oracle cloud free, where are you getting this 24 gb ram instance?

    • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s probably at the same level of difficulty to set up your own seedbox (i.e. in a VPS or even your own hardware) as it is to set up your own actual Lemmy instance.

      Merelly figuring out the fediverse is way less complicated than either of those.

  • dbemol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    37·
    2 years ago

    I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit’s fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.

    FUCK YOU SPEZ!

    • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      The other subs dont want to bother with the hassle of moving. They just want a “show of force” without actually having backup plans. Piracy subreddit is dying, the other subs can choose to stay, but we have no choice, we had to move.

    • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      I think with users who know the basics about internet piracy, switching to a Lemmy instance wasn’t difficult.

      • Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        ngl one of the main reasons i went with this instance is because i figure pirates have experience keeping a server running

  • EuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifeEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    Drastically smaller chance of things getting taken down here to boot. You’d practically have to get the host of your server up in arms, which is a lot harder to do than a grumpy Reddit admin pressing the ban button.