Also this comment:
I will not be spinning up instances of anything. I will seed hashes in bittorrent-like P2P networks, I will put my posts where they fit, I will look for posts from others in the most anti-censorship ways I can find, and I will hope devs and server admins create a version of Lemmy that’s fitting for more of my posts - while hurrying toward a possible future where Tor isn’t enough to make Lemmy relevant anymore, because P2P networks become the only place worth posting anything.
Hexbear is absolutely pro piracy
The ToS is not pro piracy
Most likely that’s to limit legal liability. I’ve never seen anybody get blasted for advocating for piracy or against piracy on hexbear.
That’s what I want to get at. There is a certain amount of ass covering going on.
I don’t care about advocating piracy but if I started posting warez to /c/gaming it would probably get removed.
If you start posting random links to warez in a way that’s basically spamming/advertising, yeah it’ll get removed.
Sorry, we do not want c/gaming to become just a zillion links to software nobody cares about, and we aren’t a .torrent aggregator. We just don’t want to blot out posting by becoming a glorified RSS feed of torrents.
If you’re replying to a comment looking for something difficult to find with a relevant magnet link or something, that’s probably fine as long as ya know it’s not a virus.
If you uploaded warez files directly to the instance that probably would get removed, and imo rightfully so we shouldn’t get this community obliterated for hosting files that can be found elsewhere with better download speeds(and privacy by using magnetised and proxiedied torrenting if you care to put the effort in)
posting links to other places hosting the files is fine, I’ve done it myself and never had any pushback from users, mods or admins
i.e the music comm post links to music hosted by people other than the official rights holder’s constantly
Of course citizen! :pirate-jammin: is totally not cool! Please ignore me gesturing with my eyes and mouthing “look over there” :angel-biblical-shh:
nothing to see here citizen!
I’m not sure what you expected to find here, citizen. Isn’t it a lovely day under Capitalism?
I shall now go and post only good things about our economic system.
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It’s self-protection against aggressive content companies via plausible deniability. As a public instance anybody can look at what we post including the content police. Because it’s Federated anybody can receive our federated broadcasts including content police. It’s very similar to why we don’t post :cool-zone: stuff because we know the :fedposting: are watching. We don’t like it, it really does suck, but we also don’t want Hexbear targeted because we got too spicy and we bring heat on the admins. I mean, we are here for doing a little :john-brown: posting (as a treat) on :reddit-logo: after all.
However we do federate with :straw-hat-pirates: instances, and there are specific comms for different media in the instance above you can subscribe to. They are better equipped to defend themselves against content companies’ shenanigans.
To be a pirate sometimes you must not appear as a pirate when the :porky-point: is looking.
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