Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit.
For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/
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
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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.
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.
Federation is absolutely amazing. So many communities can come together here
Federation is such a breath of fresh air after the last decade of everything growing more and more into a walled garden.
More like you can choose who you’re reliant on, and that choice includes yourself(selfhosting)
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.
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.
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 :)
I think I will do the same. Hopefully lurkers and snowflakes remain there.
yea most definetely. I think the initial momentum is important, with peopel more willing to get used to the new platform and UI lol
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.
Personally, I hated Mastodon, its architecture is just no user-friendly and mass adoption is very unlikely. I’m loving Lemmy tbh!
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.
I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit’s fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.
FUCK YOU SPEZ!
I couldn’t even roundabout refer to piracy most of the time.
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”
Seedbox user here, can confirm, lol.
Whassa seedbox?
A virtual machine in the cloud used for torrenting
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 🤷.
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.
I have the same issue, that’s why I love private trackers that offer some sort of bonus points for just continuing to seed.
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.
I am considering setting one up so I moved over, yup.
If I had the money, I would. Alas, I’m a university student with no real source of income.
Put Oracle Free Tier to work…
Go on…
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.
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
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?
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.
F that, lots of free image hosts exist.
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?
That’s true for x86, but the Ampere free tier allows up to 24GB.
I just checked, my area domain (or whatever that’s called) does not have the machines to provision 🥲
Pirates are used to migrating en masse
Dead site? Wheres the next one?
has been a part of piracy since it started
I remember it with pubstros linked on IRC, where the lifetime would be measures in hours or days, not years.
NGL, I’m pretty excited about that happening, imagina a pirate paradise.
en bateau
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.
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lol. The Tortuga reference reminded me of this for some reason.
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
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.
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
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.
I feel Lemmy fits better with the pirate way of life.
Long live Lemmy and screw reddit
Migrating from Reddit to Lemmy was easier than migrating from Netflix to a seedbox.
I think with users who know the basics about internet piracy, switching to a Lemmy instance wasn’t difficult.
ngl one of the main reasons i went with this instance is because i figure pirates have experience keeping a server running
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.
Fuck spez
I wish a lot of the other subreddits staying dark had a plan like this too.
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.
Paraphrasing Louis Rossmann, they’re taking a weekend break from their abusive partner hoping it will teach them a lesson.
“maybe they’ll change their mind”
For piracy, it’s pure unshackling. It’s great!
Yep, a lot of them are just missing the opportunity
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I understand the importance of maintaining history, but I’m curious about what historical info is there that you think is worth saving? News about sites/trackers will be available elsewhere. We’d just be losing the Reddit-local community comments.
In my opinion, the main thing that would be useful would be bringing info over from the wiki, or stuff that should have been on it. Guides and such.
Unfortunately the info would need to be migrated manually right now. There’s a decent number of posts across the fediverse right now looking for people to make a bot or script to copy content from reddit over to the fediverse. Apparently no suitable tools exist for automating it yet, and I’d imagine the Reddit API changes are just going to complicate efforts as the tool would probably need to use web scraping rather than the API.
Provide a server and I’ll code you the tool to scrape Reddit =) Not hard to code something like this at all!
Greetings from Kbin, get fucked /u/Spez.
Oh plebian, thou cannot fathom thein betters understanding. Bow to the spez
Fuck u/spez
I think Lemmy has prospects to be even better than Reddit. Let’s drink go it!
Hi all, just came over from Reddit. Nice to see that the community is continuing :) Feels like the piracy scene has been hit a few times now with Rarbg finishing and the API changes, I will carry my duty and try to share the word where the community is at! Perhaps this is just a good fresh start and people like oldfart will find a new better platform to share their treasures on. :)
