spoilerlemmy.world has been down very frequently, possibly due to DDoS attacks, and when a site that’s using Cloudflare is down, it displays a code 522 (sometimes it’s a 502, 503 or some variation). Yesterday, (or the day before, honestly can’t remember) lemmy.world blocked piracy communities at the request of one user (who appears to be some far-right asshole), so many pirates are going to be cheering at lemmy.world’s frequent downtime. Reminder: Although copyright infringement is unlawful in many countries, discussion of copyright infringement is usually considered protected free speech in many countries, so piracy communities are technically legal, as long as they don’t link directly to piracy content.
They’re volunteers running the instance personally, not a corporation with a legal team who can advise them how to best handle piracy related communities without being sued. Especially since their instance has to cache content from instances they federate with, it’s hard to blame them for being overly cautious with piracy communities on instances out of their control to avoid being sued by litigation happy media corporations
No, you have full control over what shows up on your instance and moderation actions are federated. So actions taken by admins and mods of the original instance federate to me, meaning I really don’t have to do much work on my side. I think I’ve only had to take a few actions myself since starting my instance. I don’t know if my mod actions are federated back to the original instance, but as it’s not hosted by me, I don’t care much.
… No? I know for a fact mod actions federate to me because I can see them in the mod log and in the interface. I can see which posts and comments were removed and which users were banned.
Edit: If you’re implying there’s dissonance between me caring about mod actions federating to me, but not caring that my mod actions may or may not federate out, the difference is that I’m not hosting any communities. I have a tiny, inactive, special topic community, and support and announcement communities. If I was hosting a big, active community, obviously I would care a lot more about moderation federation.
For some reason I thought that my instance isn’t making a copy of everything from other servers. I’m probably wrong, but I thought that pictures and things like that aren’t hosted locally and are only called when the front-end asks for it from other servers right?
You can criticize actions without being in the same exact position. Your argument is like saying “if you dont own your own social network you can criticize twitter/facebook/reddit”
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