dbzer0 has the largest piracy community and should meet all your needs
Is there fediverse reciprocity? I mean, can users on those instances subscribe to sublemmits on this instance, or is that blocked, too?
sublemmits
oh please don't
Lemmy.world hasn't defederated dbzer0. Lemmy.world just doesn't want to host pirate communities.
So, you can login to lemmy.world, then search, subscribe and interact with pirate dbzer0 communities.
This is not entirely correct. lemmy.world hasn't defederated from dbzer0, but it has blocked it's largest piracy community.
I tried it, I cannot access it https://photon.lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Will dbzer0 posts show up in the Subscribed feed if it's not hosted on lemmy.world? Will it get sorted by Hot?
Why can't lemmy.world simply redirect users to dbzer0? Why are the communities effectively shadow banned? If the main concern is lemmy.world not wanting to actually host them, rather than hiding them and trying to pretend they don't exist, why can't there just be some sort of placeholder that informs users that they cannot access this community on lemmy.world and they need to go-
-ya know what? I got halfway through writing that and got tired of it. This is exhausting, and I've been here for 2 months.
Lemmy needs an app or a UI that unites all this in a simple fashion so users don't have to go through all this every time an admin decides to get picky with what they're willing to host. All this shit need to be behind the curtain. Users should just be able to use any instance and see anything on Lemmy they want to see, whether the admins host it on their server or not.
maybe this is the simplest answer to your question...
here is your comment as viewed from dbzer0 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1959063
here is this lemmy.world community as viewed from dbzer0 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/fediverse@lemmy.world
so everything is still working in that direction
seems like lemmy.world only blocked communities though, I think if you fully block an instance then you won't send or receive anything with it?
for comparison I used https://radiation.party/c/programmer_humor@programming.devand it doesn't show anything new there because programming.dev has them blocked
It's all individual choices. You can see what dbzer0 blocks at the bottom of this list - lemmy.world isn't included in the 'blocked' part.
dbzer0 is not blocked from lemmy.world - https://lemmy.world/instances.
So while you are technically correct that you can publicly see who is blocking who by looking at their instance list, your answer isn't relevant to the question of blocked communities where there hasn't been total instance-blocking.
As far as I can tell, there is no way to see an instance's blocked communities except by reading/searching their modlog.
Ah sorry. You're right, of course. I saw the word 'fediverse' and responded without really thinking.
I read that even subscribers on lemmy.world might not even notice that the community is blocked, so there's not much hope for the rest of us.
Lemmy.world users no longer see it in all/community search results, and if trying to navigate to the Lemmy.world url for the community specifically (like this: https://lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com) they just get an error.
So the only way they would discover that communities are blocked is if they absolutely know the community actually exists by visiting the foreign instance.
The only other way I've discovered you can see what communities an instance has blocked is by parsing through the public modlog.
Yeah, defederating **right wing ** extremists is important to me.
Exploding Heads is federated defederated by democratic vote.
Isn't that the site recently defederated from l.w. for having an illegal fetish style community? No thanks.
Defederated by democratic vote*
My autocorrect messed up.
Oh, that's better. :)
Responsive admins on matrix and run on renewable energy too.
I'd love to make an account there, but the confirmation email is broken apparently. Can't login.
Really? Odd, I can mention it in the matrix chat if you're still interested timou@jlai.lu
I've heard a lot of people report this, it's definitely an issue.
Until it's resolved you can dm thedude@sh.itjust.works and he will manually confirm your acct.
I just went to inform admins and someone else had already just brought it up. I'll keep you posted.
Same here, tried with 2 different mails. I guess that doesn't always just work 😏
I'm not sure how well tagging users in comments works here so just in case I'm letting you know I contacted admins and they're looking into it.
Second that sh.it
Fellow pirates come take a look at lemmy.dbzer0.com.
Hoist your colors high 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I mean, what better place to find safe harbor other than Port Royal itself?
If you're defederated you can't post elsewhere, which sucks. A dedicated piracy account makes sense though.
Host your own instance and you can control what you federate and defederate with.
Otherwise you’re probably not going to find an instance that fits all of your wants.
You’ll probably just want to join a piracy geared instance as your home instance if that’s important to you.
Problem is that selfhosting makes it significantly harder to be anonymous when everyone can see your IP with a trivial lookup. Or I guess you could rent a VPS instead of running it locally.
Some might say that's a feature, not a bug. If you're not willing to stand by your words, then who are you, really?
But fine, let's talk:
There's Cloudflare, for what they're worth on privacy and anonymity.
There's VPS, as you say, but they are responsive to subpoenas.
There are sketchy "data haven" counties whose sketchy economy you're fueling with your rent. (* Cough * .ml * cough *)
Chose, but chose wisely.
Just because you choose a domain in a "data haven", doesn't mean that you're necessary more or less private.
It does help with piracy for not getting a site shutdown but I think that's the only reason.
Also you CAN run a small instance for free through Oracle cloud (as long as you enable swap if you're using the amd instances) but your main limitations are going to be storage, as I use around a gig-ish per day with subscribing to a large percentage of the large communities (though there are things that are supposed to help with this like LPP, but I've never used it myself)
I have an alt on https://sh.itjust.works/because I like that it’s powered by 99% renewable energy. I did attempt to sign up for Aussie.zone too but I think that’s still awaiting approval.
EDIT: Oh yeah and I do have an account on kbin.social as well
It's almost never down. It's great.
You(and everyone else) are welcome at endlesstalk.org.
I prioritize uptime and have setup monitoring to notify, if anything goes down(See here). I have no problem banning/defederating Nazi's and the like, but I generally don't take action unless, an instance/users aren''t following the rules. I'm open for requests and discussion though.
Currently I'm the only admin, but I'm in the process of changing the setup of the site, so other admins would be able to fix the site, if anything should happen.
What country is it hosted in?
In Germany on a hetzner dedicated server.
I moved from lemmy.world to Lemm.ee as a backup, seems that it's going to be my main for a time, I don't discard searching for another, on the top of my mind probably lemmy.zip and lemmings.world are good alternatives.
Just joined lemm.ee
😅
not sure if you're joking but I can see the url is wrong.. .ee on the end, not .me
Oops, shouldn't try to think before bed 😂 Thank you.
What's their take on tankies?
They have defederated from neither lemmygrad.ml nor hexbear.net.
Thank you, everyone. Found my new home. What was odd was that this thread I created (Hi, I'm also HR_Pufnstuf) experienced the same problem with all threads in the Technology community... where I can't see any of the comments except my own. Luckily I was able to find all your comments in my inbox. After visiting all your wonderfull suggestions, save for the kbin's, I've chosen to settle here. I'll keep the lemmy.world around as a backup.
Also, wanna say the default theme here is pretty slick
Again, thanks everyone. I appreciated the feedback!
PseudoSpock / HR_Pufnstuff
Edit: I had a typo in my sig of PseudoSpock I just fixed. That typo had made it offensive and I am VERY sorry!
I had the same problem with not being able to see comments, even in my own thread. I found that the issue was with the language I selected in my settings. I was told to select 'Undetermined' but I think this only let me see other undetermined posts and not those who have theirs set to English. So I clicked the big 'X' next to them in settings (deselecting any language) and now I see everyone's comments. Hope that helps.
Aha! I, too, had suspected that setting, I just didn't figure out the fix. Good on you!
lemmy.sdf.org I wouldn't even have bothered signing up for Lemmy if I hadn't seen them on the list of suggested instances.
For some reason, lemmy.sdf.org has issue in federating with kbin.social communities. Taking one random community as an example:
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Viewing from lemmy.sdf.org: 1 new post in last 24h.
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Viewing from lemmy.zip: 6 new posts in last 24h.
I use SDF and I'm happy with it but his second point is that the instance should defederate/not tolerate Nazis, which SDF doesn't fit the bill
Really? I haven't seen anything I would consider Nazi content in my feed. Granted, I mostly only pay attention to my subscribed feed but I check out All daily and nothing has made me regret my choice. I don't even know what their policy is. I assumed it was reasonable, not doors wide open.
Lemmy.ca meets your requirements, and you don't need to be Canadian to join. We welcome all!
I'd suggest lemmy.ca also.
Before I made my account here I was doing research to see if I was going to start my own instance or not. I had very similar requirements as yours but also some around security, patching, and long walks on the beach.
Honestly, the lemmy.ca admins (including Shadow) seem to know their stuff. They're active on github, patch regularly, and actually care about the community. As an end user, everything I could ask for. <3
I am on lemmy.zip and had no problems so far. I really don't have anything more to say.
I'm on lemmy.zip as well and have been happy. Gravitates towards tech, recently defederated a few extremist instances (by a vote), good uptime, and run by some seemingly cool people.
+1 for Lemmy.zip! Great folks here and an admin who cares a lot for the community.
I registered on lemmy.zip. Sign up requires you to apply and freeform write something in a text box to prove you're human. I put in a really bad dad joke, and my application was approved almost immediately.
It is pretty chill here.
this might help you.
I remember there was another where you put your opinions (agree, don't care, disagree) about those bullet points and it throws you a list of instances but I didn't save it sorry.
It would be very useful if you found that again and posted it.
lemmy.blahaj.zone if you're fine with the queer friendliness
What is "queer friendliness"? Do you mean pro LGBTQ+ rights?
Do you mean pro LGBTQ+ rights?
You betcha!
I would point out that piracy is against our ToS, so we wouldn't tolerate hosting piracy subs ourselves.
well lemmy.blahaj.zone is federated with lemmy dberz0.com
We aren't defeferated from them. That's different from hosting that content ourselves though.
I'm not personally against piracy, however hosting that kind of content here ourselves would put our primary reason for creating this space (that of providing a safe social space for trans and LGBTQIA+ people) at risk.
I just wanted to point that out before we get a whole bunch of piracy subs created on our instance that we'd have to remove.
Is that instance stable? I tried it and it was such a slog sometimes.
meh It's fine for me
Come to Blahaj.Zone, we have the rainbow and hate people that hate.
Isn't that the instance that had the admin who threw a fit about the NSFW lemmy? And doubled-down when it was pointed out they were wrong? The whole point is he wants an instance where people aren't gonna defederate for stupid reasons.
Yes, but I completely agree that people who seek out porn of people who look like children but are "legal" are gross. It's no different than lolicon of little girls BuT sHeS 1000 yEaRs OlD.
It's gross and I'm on board with removing barely legal porn that is made intentionally to appear younger.
Defederation should be a last effort, not something you should do just because some women have small tits.
Of course, the idiot admin isn't the only person doubling down on being wrong.
Well, seeing as the entire community voted on defederating after the dust settled on what was happening, we agreed to remove trash from our front page.
Paradox of tolerance
Lemmy.SDF.Org Come on over
Though it had some uptime issues literally the weekend that I recommended it to a friend, it's been solid since.
In French : SDF = Sans Domicile Fixe (Homeless)
In French : SDF = Sans Domicile Fixe (Homeless)
Rather than throw you a list of all instances, how about I just give you a suggestion
In my experience it seems to fit all points on your list
I’d suggest spreading the load a bit once you’re used to kbin, but kbin.social has great uptime.
Instance list can be found here: https://fedidb.org/software/kbin
I have never seen any other Kbin users but kbin.social... I was wondering if they didn't have different instances like Lemmy does.
artemis.camp for those of us beta testing the Artemis app for kbin.
Another camper here, there are dozens of us, dozens!
I probably have and just assumed it was a Lemmy instance.
It is federated with several lemmy domains/instances so you will be receiving all the lemmy content you were previously.
Lemmy.blahaj.zone, startrek.website, sh.itjust.works are all good.
any reliable instance will do (lemm.ee, divbyzero, discuss.tchncs.de,..) filter undesired instances using connect or sync. done.
Oh I see lemmy.dbzer0.com has already been suggested
I'm on programming.dev , the local communities are about programming stuff. Haven't noticed any blocked instances thus far from here. Can interact with beehaw, dbzer0 and everywhere else.
following...
Well thank you. Do I look ok from back there? ;)
Try feddit.ch it's hosted in switzerland and is good for privacy. it has 100% uptime too. also no need for an email to signup
I’ve been pretty happy with kbin.social.
They're federated with lemmy so you can still browse and subscribe to lemmy instances on kbin accounts
Can't use any of my apps though.
Can vouch for Artemis, great app, easy transition especially if you were an Apollo user. Great progress so far in public beta
It’s coming soon. Artemis is in public beta.
Does kbin.social have any decent apps?
Artemis is in public beta on iOS.
Not yet, unfortunately. But the web version works good on phones.
Wait what happened to the fmhy.net instance?
Welp, they are just not lucky, are they...
I'm quite liking infosec.pub so far.
Also wandered off from lemmy.world recently, though that was due to the consistent server outages.
Someone else already mentioned dbzer0. With a bit of searching, you may find another that fits the parameters. Good luck!
The admins for https://lemmyhub.comand https://lemmings.worldwere promoting their instances on one of the other posts.
The admin for a bigger community - https://lemm.ee- has said they've assessed the situation re: piracy, and don't see a need to block the community at dbzer0.
What .ml debacle?
Mali (where .ml comes from) claimed all of their domains back from a Dutch company that managed them for over a decade, and in the process, they shut down or took over quite a number of websites they didn't agree with.
Lemmy.ml works for me. Your post of requirements resonates with me.
Ml is a ticking time bomb. Mali is starting to take back its domain and lemmy.ml could go offline at any time. OP specifically noted that too.
It seems like about 50% of the recommenders in this thread didn't read OPs list of requirements at all.
I don't need "bitch" censored for me thank you very much.
It requires that you write an application and that that application gets accepted by admins for you to join though. So it is not really an option.
A solid choice is Feddit.ch, it is based in Switzerland.
Come to be the dark side, DB0 zero Piracy!
Mistyped. Should’ve been “DB0 Piracy”. Which is the exact instance that got blocked by LW.
The one I'm in works just fine.
It seems that they censor comments to. In a thread earlier it seems that every time anyone hosted over there tried to coment the f-slur and it got changed to either removed in italics or for some users just ******. Kinda sketchy if you ask me.
Other than that come to sh.itjust.works, name is a little foul but they are very relaxed and dont do the censorship thing (as far as im aware) althought they are a little to entusiastic on tankie hate. Not that they are defendable (the tankies) but whatever.
It seems that they censor comments to. In a thread earlier it seems that every time anyone hosted they tried to coment the f-slur and it got changed to either removed in italics or for some users just ******. Kinda sketchy if you ask me.
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That was a typo, it was suppose to say PseudoSpock. I am extremely sorry to have had it with that offensive misspelling. I've fixed it.
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Are you a robot?
Noooo? Why? Did I say something robot like? When I was younger I could dance the robot... about the only thing I could dance, too.
You where talking about a typo thing, i think you either missread my comment or replied to the wrong one, dont worry about it, i checked you out and i already realised you are op. Nice that you got into a decent instance. Just dont get censored.
Ah. Thought I'd offended you. Spock spelled with the wrong vowel can be a very racist word. I'd finished watching the breaking indictment news, sat down to dinner in front of the computer and re-read the thread, saw my mispelled sig and panicked. So I started re-reading every comment to see if I'd offended someone, as my comment with the mispelling had two downvotes.
Sounds like you should just chill with that m8, i dont think anyone saw your original name other than those comments, and besides if someone expreses ofence by your mistake after you corrected it are probably better ignored. And even if otherwise you shouldnt worry about it since is not like its gonna be linked to you irl and gonna get cancelled, other than that i can just say that i find it silly. Just have fun here, thats what im trying to say m8.
On lemmy.world and no problems yet.
Lemmygrad sounds like the place you are looking for
FFS I thought all this bollocks would be done with once we moved from corporate self interest to more community based stuff but it seems all admins eventually go to shit 🤬
come on man, us instance admins are more or less doing this for free and we have to protect ourselves where we see the need. In this case Germany Netherlands/Finland as quite strict rules around piracy. I have to put up with very strict rules around porn (not as bad as Asia and Arabia) that means I don't federate with Porn sites.
[edit on hosting location]
I'm struggling to understand why Reddit actually hosted a piracy discussion group without issues for a long long time, yet here it's deemed too illegal to see a piracy discussion group hosted elsewhere 🤷♂️
Did anyone bother reading the TOS of Lemmy.world? It's literally rule one.
Yeah so? They made those themselves.
Yeah and it's their instance where they can do what they want. The whole point of the fediverse is if you don't like the instance go to a different one or start your own.
And people who signed up on that instance signed up themselves.
Lemmy.blahaj.zone
Such a stupid response
How does this work? You just subscribe to your instance and setup the instance with the stuff you want in it? That actually sounds pretty cool.
You have an account on your instance, disable account creation (so you don't have to moderate anyone else), then subscribe to any communities you like.
Downsides are that being being the first person on your instance to subscribe to a community is a bit janky, and if you're the only user you're always that person.
Local feed is useless.
In general, finding content is a little harder.
Otherwise, having full control is awesome, instances are unlikely to defederate you as a small fry so you can federate with exactly who you choose, and you get a much snappier experience as you aren't sharing the server with others.
There is https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
Would you mind sharing it?
I'm responding to your comment in my "Detailed guide for migrating Reddit subs to a forum (Xenforo). Including reddit-like titles, and threaded comment view." thread.
I added a "see it in action" link https://gist.github.com/MaximilianKohler/3bdedd0185283ac30c1f1422f9626947#customizations-i-used
Also, it seems that my post was deleted without any reason/notification and I don't see a way to message the mods. They have a modlog that just shows an endless loading icon. There is also no access to your content after it's deleted, unlike with reddit.
More drawbacks of Lemmy to add to the list. And more confirmation that I made the right choice in going for my own forum over Lemmy.
Perfect, I missed the link. Thanks!
That's cool!
Even finding a community is janky. You search for it and it tells you there's no community then you refresh and suddenly it's there then you subscribe and it's a bit random as to which posts and comments get federated and which never do.
Oh I forgot they fixed that. It used to be you couldn't access a new remote community any way other than the search. If you tried to access it directly it didn't work at all. But I remember after one update that started to work.
Also to note in, there are a few 'subscriber bots' out there on github to help a new instance get some seed communities out there. It can make the DB and loval storage swell like crazy but is nice when you don't feel a need to manually sub to everything.