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I understand why they did what they did and it makes me think of how db0 and other admins are saying fuck all and taking a very big liability for making and supporting a free internet and i want to say all the work you do is very much appreciated. Also shoutout to lemmy.ml admins for running a similar community on their own .

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 98 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will never defederate from y’all ❤️

[–] Koto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OT, that's a very nice UN and instance name you have!

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thank you! I started the server as a random project right after I left Reddit and shredded all of my posts. I’m pretty sure I’m the only active user but that’s okay by me. It’s a little money out of my pocket to give both myself and others refuge from social media and all of the enshitification.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Here's the donations links from on the sidebar mateys. The server is currently is not covering its hosting costs ;)

EDIT: Removed since they're in the OP now

[–] Elliot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Added to the post .

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are the current hosting costs? Every cent counts, but how much do y'all need?

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[–] Elliot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

The ko-fi page has that info i think.

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Being defederated by lemmyworld is a badge of honor. Keep up the good work!

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah, I disagree. They are running a large community in the middle of Europe, in plain view and being personally known, and as such, liable. Adhering to applicable laws and regulations is the sensible thing to do, plain and simple.

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

That makes it even worse. Imagine putting in all this effort and taking all this supposed risk to create a new social media platform free of the pitfalls that come with a for profit site like reddit only to slowly adopt the exact same corporate friendly code of conduct while purposefully curating a community of annoying shitheads who are nearly indistinguishable from the horde of cretins on reddit.

If making a new reddit is legitimately the best they can do, then they should absolutely just scuttle the entire project.

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 12 points 1 year ago

Honestly even Reddit is better. Reddit still has a r/piracy

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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Care to ELI5 for us casuals who did not catch and are missing the obvious?

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AFAIK Lemmy.world (the largest Lemmy instance) was issued a takedown request for something unrelated, and conducted a review of the piracy communities following that.

Unfortunately they decided to remove/unfed a few piracy communities as a result, such as this one on dbzer0.

So while we are still all federated, lemmy.world users can no longer see or interact with the !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com community ☹️

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So we can still things from them but they can’t see things from us?

I suppose that’s why people make at least two accounts.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

I think they've just defederated the community, so they can see users commenting from dbzer0 but can't access !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com themselves.

But generally yes, federation is two way. It's possible for one side to defederate while the other side to be federated, in which case users on one side could post comments but they'd only be visible to instances that are federated with them. Eg, if lemmy.world was not federated with dbzer0 at all, but it was still federated with lemmy.ml, then dbzer0 comments in lemmy.world would show up for dbzer0 and lemmy.ml users but not for lemmy.world.

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[–] whalebiologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

db0 is a personal hero of mine I have been a follower since his OCTGN creations.

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[–] tiredowl2020@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who just started with this community, I'll admit that I'm a little confused by what happened. Appreciate everyone who puts in time here though!

[–] pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

One of the largest instances, lemmy.world, is no longer receiving posts from this community. They're worried about legal troubles I think?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Love 'em. And mods of this community are pretty tight too 💘

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