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"Unremoval of Piracy Communities" https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

This post needs to be updated to reflect the current policy.

Six months later, a new Removal of piracy communities announcement confirmed that these communities had been removed. [!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com](/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com), which was the most popular piracy community, is still inaccessible to lemmy.world users. This is misleading: users see the old post, sign-up, and then find out they cannot access the community.

Please edit the original post to include the new removal announcement.

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 38 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's why I run my own instance, dont like others decide what must be censored for me.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would love to know how to do that. Like to not be censored.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes I use docker, I have documented my effort here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy

It was pretty easy and require zero maintenance, just remember to update the containers. Space utiliztion and resources are pretty low, depending on how many communities you subscribe.

Also, I host it at home (with public reachable ip of course)

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing.

Have you had any issues with other, larger instances not federating with you? (just because your small, they don't want to risk being spammed by trolls/bots/etc)

This would be my only concern in hosting my own instance.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 1 month ago

Never had such an issue

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Much appreciated. Seems very detailed

Just an odour question from me because I don’t know. How does federation work? Do you need to specifically federate with everyone or just those you don’t want to federate with

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 1 month ago

Its automatic. You can defederate, bit federation is utomatic.

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So you run your own instance and federate with other instances as you please? How are you hosting it / is it doable via docker?

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 1 month ago

Yes I use docker, I have documented my effort here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy

It was pretty easy and require zero maintenance, just remember to update the containers. Space utiliztion and resources are pretty low, depending on how many communities you subscribe.

Also, I host it at home (with public reachable ip of course)

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

But so you can decide for others what you want to censor for them on your instance. Because I can name a few things that you would probably want ASAP removed from your instance, if someone posted such things.

Everyone would do the same if they personally were exposed to legal liability.

I highly suspect that they’re the sole user on their instance. That’s fairly common for people who just want to avoid the headache of dealing with rogue admins. Just spin up an instance, and then your server only federates with the instances and communities that you directly interact with. No need to worry about the “things you would want removed ASAP” unless you’re the one seeking out those things.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 1 month ago

I am my only user, so...