This gives me an idea. Make a federated torrent site. It would be practically impossible to take down and one instance going offline because they don't have money wouldn't destroy everything like in RARBG's case.
Something I've seen is encoding links and sending people to https://www.base64decode.org/. Whether that alleviates legal risk is questionable (unlikely?), but it does prevent scraping for keywords.
Thank you! Currently the costs would be close to 40 Eur per month, but I’m using some shared resources so the split is not exact. More than 30 Eur for sure.
No, my subscription to !piracy. I’ve been able to sub to other instance’s communities fine in general. In this case I wondered if it required approval because I see this:
It will resove itself eventually, you don’t need to do anything. It’s likely your server was overloaded at the time, and added your subscribe request to a queue.
It’s nice to have backups but doesn’t this just fracture the already small lemmy piracy community even more? Maybe running it as a mirror without the possibility to engage would be better.
Yes, but lemmy.ml went down today, before the blackout, and way ahead of the API shutdown. It WILL go down again due to the load.
This might fragment the community, but a dedicated instance by a r/Piracy mod is better than relying on one that could go down at any moment. Eventually, people will just use the new one and it won’t matter. I think this is a good call.
This is part of the reason I made my own instance. It’s now my responsibility to keep my own account functioning, not someone else’s. Anyone’s server going down won’t prevent me from using Lemmy or making comments.
lemmy.dbzer0.com
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