leraje

joined 1 year ago
[–] leraje@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Not sa far as I know.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] leraje@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances.

No they didn't. They blocked 3 communities from 2 different instances. All other communities on those instances are available to .world users and .world is still available to all users on those two instances.

Blocking individual communities is not the same thing as defederating from those instances.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I dunno man, when it comes right down to it, who are any of us really? Y'know?

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying they are or aren't. I'm simply saying that we all know the big media companies go after people at the drop of a hat. They recently tried to get reddit to expose the identities of people discussing piracy over there. To their credit reddit told them no and defended themselves legally. And that's the issue. The media companies can accuse anyone of anything if it even slightly smells like piracy and the target has to legally defend themselves. This is fine if you're a multibillion valued company. Not so fine if you're just some guy who just wanted to run a Lemmy instance out of his own pocket.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I don't know about you but engaging a lawyer and going to court to defend myself would be a massive financial drain. And to risk that on simply the hope that a court might find in my favour is far too big of a risk. Then add on all the unwanted public exposure, the internet notoriety etc. Fuck that.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a bit naive, knowing what we know about the sharks that run the large media corporations. For your average instance owner, it's not a question of being found not liable, it's the fact that you as an ordinary guy with an ordinary life and an ordinary income suddenly have to defend yourself legally with all the exposure and expense that entails, from day one.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nothing. It's just 3 communities on dbzero that are blocked and as far as I know, they're only blocked on .world. There's no defederation so you as a user signed up to dbzero can still participate in any .world community and any .world user can still interact with communities on dbzero apart from the three named.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 562 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don't blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won't put them in the legal firing line.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better that than making no difference at a club going nowhere.

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone posts from Mastodon to Lemmy, then yeah, that content is now part of Lemmy.

 

You might've noticed no posts by the bot today. The log did record an error and it seems that because lemmy.world has had no choice to go behind cloudflare until the script kiddies get bored with their ddos attack on the database, the bot isn't making it past the cloudflare challenge, which is not surprising.

I'll leave it up and running and hopefully .world can ease back as and when the ddos attacks retreat. Hopefully at that point the bot will resume normal activity.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by leraje@lemmy.world to c/metal@lemmy.world
 

I was thinking of creating a bot that took the RSS feed of album reviews from the Angry Metal Guy site and posted new album reviews to this Community. The site seems to post one or two a day on average.

But obviously, I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this idea. Not everyone loves bots so I'd like to gauge community reaction before I just go ahead on do it.

EDIT: Upvotes and favourable comments are a good sign so I've created it. I did a dry run to store all the historical reviews so everything the bot posts now should be brand new. This also means you might not see a new post for the next 24hrs depending on when AMG next update.

If it misbehaves let me know! And if it's awful or annoying I can easily disable it.

 

Dymna Lotva are a Belarusian band who had to flee their homeland following persecution from the pro-Putin gvmt. They're currently based in Poland. Their music is about the attacks on their homeland by extremists.

 

Off their just announced new album 'This Heathen Land' out in October.

 

New album Weltende is out on the 28th July.

 

From their new album Eloah Burns Out, due September 29.

 

Theyre coming to my area later this year apparently. I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on the quality of service?

Also, the Linksys router they provide - can you manage your own DNS? Their documentation isn't clear.

Cheers :)

 

From the album Woe.

 

From the article:

"I know for a fact that Wikipedia operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which explicitly states that if you're going to use the data, you must give attribution. As far as search engines go, they can get away with it because linking back to a Wikipedia article on the same page as the search results is considered attribution.

But in the case of Brave, not only are they disregarding the license - they're also charging money for the data and then giving third parties "rights" to that data."

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