Microsoft can’t take down their server. What they can do is ban it from connecting to their services. You do not need to connect to Microsoft to play on or host a private Minecraft server.
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PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoSelf-hosted private server, just like a lemmy instance, one joins out of their own will. Imagine mega corporations being able to decide what is acceptable on your lemmy instance and take it down if they don’t like it?
stray@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
If you were in violation of lemmy’s terms of use, yeah…
They aren’t using their own software here.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
“If you were in violation of lemmy’s terms of use, yeah…” wait, is there a central lemmy that can nuke other instances? I thought the whole point of fediverse was if you don’t like an instance you just defederate from it and that there was no central power.
Yeah, we used to own software we bought and could do whatever we wanted on it on our private storages. Imagine tomorrow Microsoft erasing your privately stored documents because it contained stuff against their policies… very risky when you get governments banning abortion, trans rights, and even labeling antifascism as terrorism.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
There is a legal process. Violating the AGPL that Lemmy us released under, for example.
PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I don’t think AGPLv3 license would prevent someone from opening a nazi bar lemmy though…