Humans who run instances are real people who have jobs and mortgages and kids. I also like having piracy communities around to balance the greedy ass corporations trying to control media and copyright…I’m glad to know they are there if I need them or feel like screwing around with it. I just wonder if the people ranting all indignantly acting like instances are competing for their usership would feel the same if the most active instance was on a server physically sitting in their basement, or paid for by money tied to them in the real world. Yes it seems pretty unlikely that you’re ever going to run into issues with law enforcement, copyright claims, lawsuits…but how much would you risk for a fucking hobby you do for free? Would you risk your house? Your job? I would not. Grow up. No one cares what instance you use.
Ok. I’m cranky because my kid missed the bus today and work was stressful and it just reminds me how the dude who made world is also an unremarkable middle aged white man like myself. Someone has to be a grownup and pay the bills, that’s all, and if you are losing your mind over world blocking piracy then that someone most likely isn’t you.
I thought you were going to go religious on us for a second there.
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I’m never in favor of thought police deciding what I’m allowed to see. ACAB and all that.
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Doubling down on the narcissistic abuse. It’s a bold tactic, Cotton. Let’s see if it works out for him.
What? What’s narcissistic about that comment. Abuse – maybe since that was antagonistic language and it just might be your first day on the internet.
It opens with a personal attack on the intelligence of a group of “stupid fuckers,” and you don’t see any narcissism? No wonder people fall for their games.
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He started it!
Meh, you’re both being awful. Now shake hands and make up. ;) ~Oh, and I know I’m a total hypocrite. It’s what I’m good at.~
I calls them as I sees them. Seems to have worked out fine, for me at least.
It’s not thought police, go host your own instance like I do if you care that much, fuck I’ll help you set it up. Jesus you people are insane sometimes.
It is thought police. I can handle my own affairs, thank you. It sounds like you’ve been through enough.
Lmao thought police is fucking sending me a bill for breaking the copyright law!!
Controlling what you see online is also thought policing.
No, calling protective measures fascism/thought controlling/etc is in fact closer to thought controlling than that in itself. And besides you can easily bypass this ban, which wasn’t done in secret but with a public announcement.
Just… grow up or come up with a real point.
Lol, do I need to be protected from the pirates? Am I going to be taken away by the dirty criminals? Is this decreed for my own good? What will you do if I continue to object?
IDK, feels pretty fascist.
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Nobody is controlling what you see online, you choose to use the instance you use.
This is LemmyWurld, if you don’t like it, leave!
So switch to an instance that doesn’t block them? That’s the whole point of federation. I’ve already jumped instances once, and I’m probably going to a second time.
“This is Lemmy World, if you don’t like it leave!”
See? Fascism.
I’d rather make you put me in a prison.
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Nazism is when someone points out you have the option to move to another instance.
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This has to be trolling lmao you can’t be serious
Genius first appears as madness to ignorance.
Banger quote but that doesn’t make you right
Except it’s an original idea, and I am right. I’ve seen colonization enough times in my life to know how it works on every level. You don’t know what you can’t see, and you’re trusting an authority to determine what’s appropriate for you to know. Today it’s piracy, tomorrow obscenity, the next day political enemies. There’s only one way this goes. Authority is anti-intellectual because free thought runs counter to blind obedience.
Lemmy.world does not have authority over us. Just move to another instance.
Why are you so mad that user are mad? These people made a new home (free of corporate oversight (fuck spez)) and now corporate bs is leaking in and we are pissed. Makes sense to me. Seeing the mods mock users asking questions is asinine. So I switched instances, which was mildly inconvenient.
Nobody gives a fuck about you kiddo missing the bus mate. Maybe keep it in your lane. Don’t post if your home life is so rocky that you sound like a chud.
Corporate bs lol that is deluded. My whole point is that the decision was made by regular people who make zero money from this for practical reasons that are reasonable. Letting off steam just because, don’t mean to make you feel attacked but fuck you too guy. There was no need to say that.
When the reason for defederating is because “we might get sued” it might be important to ask who is doing the suing.
Hint: it’s a corporation.
Edit: sorry if I hurt your feelings.
I gotcha I guess I misunderstood what you meant.
Did you ever really believe everything were saying on here wasn’t already monitored by corps? If the threat of being sued is corporate BS then this place has been infiltrated since day 1.
Oh my god, nobody cares about that outside your home.
Cool