Scammers these days lack basic courtesy 🤦‍♂️

The idea that corporations will come after federated instances that aren’t even creating the posts instead of the source is nonsensical

Is it? Content from federated instances are cached on the instance itself too, no?

I wouldn’t take the risk federating with legally questionable instances, and no one should have to. I’d just use an alt account for that on another instance that is federated, and I do.

if the source is taken down then it won’t be on other instances anymore anyway.

That doesn’t seem to be the case. vlemmy.net has gone down permanently it seems, and I can still access the content on there that were made while it was up from other instances.

Hasn’t reddit already gotten into legal trouble multiple times regarding that sub? Even very recently with film piracy.

And let’s not pretend these communities only ‘discuss’ piracy, as much as they try to keep it within that limit. These corporations wouldn’t care even if they did.

Eh? It’s understandable. They shouldn’t be forced to deal with any legal issues that come with it.

You can just use another instance that fits your needs, isn’t that the whole point of this decentralized model?

Time to dust off the old pirate hat…

Why would any of this make them not resellable or stealable, as if there aren’t loads of iPhones and MacBooks on ebay?

Don’t the communities work even while the instance is down?

I suppose modding them while down would be an issue

Honestly? That’s great. It’s stress-testing Lemmy and, to an extent, ActivityPub.

Growing pains. It’s just gonna improve Lemmy in the long term.

If you don’t like it, use another smaller instance like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee. You know, the entire point of decentralization.

‘Rewrite it in Rust’ isn’t a joke anymore

This but unironically

You can still access those communities from other instances right?