The author certainly has a type.

Typically it takes a lot more for dns to be lost. Let’s hope it never comes to that, especially since we don’t actually allow links to pirate content

Our provider doesn’t care for dmcas

We’re not American, and as far as I know luxembourg doesn’t have dmca laws. But we anyway don’t allow direct linking to pirated content. Only discussion of said content and linking to tlds

Because polygamy inside an unequal society like capitalism and monarchies is a form of control and power and most people inherently reject allowing others to have such power if they can help it.

If this comm or instance is taken down, its content is still cached on all other instances it federated on naturally. You don’t lose anything if you were accessing it through your own instance.

Personally I find their constant bad faith arguments tiring so I usually don’t engage. Many campists have the right critique of the existing systems but are useless at knowing what to do to change it. Their best takes are usually to emulate socialist movements of the early 20th century like a cargo cult and hope if they do the same motions, it will magically lead to the same socialism (with them on the vanguard ofc). So ultimately worthless praxis built on stale rhetoric. It’s telling that even the most “left unity” oriented campists manage to thoroughly alienating most of those they believe they should be united with.

It’s “corporate” only in the sense that the were developed by corporations yes, but we don’t interact with those corporations anymore than meme posters interact with the original creators of the images they use for memes. The models we’re using are permissively licensed and are run locally on people’s PCs.

How is the ai? I always lose patience with civ games because the ai is braindead and at higher difficulties just cheats insanely to make up for it

If it quacks like a duck, and it walks like a duck…

Can’t get banned

Well, technically if you’re a chud, you can get widely defederated.

Sure that works, I just don’t see what benefit you have in using dbzer0 instead of a pastebin with this approach (or hell, just giving them the direct link in matrix)

So you’d have a bunch of encrypted strings here but no information of what they are? I mean that’s fine but I think it wouldn’t work very optimally for you. Because if someone requested the link on matrix, why not directly give them the link in matrix in the first place?

Ye, basically always keep in mind how much risk it creates. Anything you would do that make us look like an indexer, makes us a target. So the more layers between us and the infringing content we have, the safer.

That’s fine. I hope you can all enjoy the threadiverse! Just remember that this is an anarchist-run server, so ensure that your members take heed of our code of conduct.

The problem is, if you were to do this, it would defacto makes us a piracy indexer, as the names of the releases the the relevant link to get them would be on our website. This could cause the copyright cartel to go after us and we can’t defend against that. If you could arrange to have the index externally (for example, on a rentry.co entry) and then when someone requests a link, you point them to that to ctrl+f, it could work.

You’re of course welcome here. It’s just a matter of how likely your practices is to lead to us being targeted, you know? If you’re going to share the occasional link encrypted between yourselves, it should be fine. But if you start posting whole directories of links, it might be a problem. However a hybrid option where you have a comm here for discussions and you use things like pastebins to host your link collection should work.

If you give me some idea of how you plan to utilize the comm, I can give some more practical pointers on how to ensure we’re not in danger.

The sporadic encrypted link would be OK, but nothing becoming standardized. If we become known as a link sharing site, we’ll get in trouble.

A link to what?

Wait, not only are you misinterpreting what I said (I used alien.top as a case of for “admins will want to defederate because of resource abuse even when their own users find it useful” and less about “admins will ban any bot-only instance”) but your interpretation directly contradicts your first point.

And I bring up botsin.space as a bot-heavy instance which wasn’t widely defederated which obviuously proves you wrong on what constitures “resource abuse” enough to be defederated. I.e. you’re cherry-picking your example to prove your point. There’s a difference between an instance trying to duplicate all of fucking reddit, and 24 bots posting 2xday. FFS.

Yeah, you can add the “reasonable output” qualifier all you want. This would be a subjective point.

With botsin.space, we have a good example of what is reasonable to not be defederated.