Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy?

• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Theoretically there is community input but at the end of the day, one guy owns it and can do stuff unilaterally. There is occasionally drama over that, like recently the piracy community was removed due to concern over possible legal hassles. I’d say Lemmy world tries to be friendly and mainstream, while edgier stuff tends to live on other instances. So you can still find what you want.

  Nothing stops you from using multiple instances of course. It’s no different from drinking at more than one café. But people tend to have a main one that they visit the most.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    like recently the piracy community was removed due to concern over possible legal hassles

    To be clear, lemmy.dbzer0.com wasn’t removed, it was defederated by lemmy.world. That only affects lemmy.world, it’s still federated with other instances.

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    • whoreticulture@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So by defederated, that means since I have a lemmy.world account, I can’t subscribe to the piracy community? But if I made another account on a different instance I could?

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      • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, exactly. For example, I can still see the main Piracy community at dbzer0 with lemm.ee/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, however if you try to go to the lemmy.world version at lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com it turns up an error.

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