rglullis

I don't know, maybe it seems that you are experiencing a lot of the pains that comes with learning about self-hosting, which is fine and laudable but not at all an issue exclusive to Fediverse software.

Maybe my question is: are you trying to deploy your Lemmy for this long for the learning process, or do you just want to have a server of your own? If the latter, why not just go one of the hosting providers?

it can't afford to get it wrong.

Why? Why is that Valley companies like AirBNB and Uber get a pass for skirting regulations and only after they corner the market they start asking for government help, and we the people need to be constantly afraid of whatever rules?

Why should we feel afraid?

https://www.funkwhale.audio/apps/

The "problems" I am trying to solve are a bit like bug #1 on Ubuntu's Issue tracker:

• I don't want to have an Internet which is accessible to large majority of people through "platforms" controlled by large corporations.
• Surveillance Capitalism is a net negative for society. People should be able to access services without having to give up their privacy.
• The attention-based economy has caused terrible damages to civil debate, media institutions are no longer focused on factual reporting and depend on polarization, emotional manipulation of issues and only report on things that are favorable or inoffensive to the Status Quo.
• Because of increased automation, knowledge workers will be increasingly pushed out of meaningful and well-paying jobs and will be forced to try to monetize every aspect of their life. There are no more hobbies, everything is a "hustle" or a "side project".

I hoped that all the things that I've worked on with Communick were made to the sense of mitigating these problems.

• Provide open source platforms which can be self-hosted, but do not demand users to become part-time admins.
• Instead of ad-based revenue, make a honest value proposition: I offer a service, people pay to use it.
• Create a system where people can allocate a budget to support artists and free/libre developers, to foment a reconstruction of a more open culture.

Much like all other communick instances, registrations are done through the portal. After you register there, you can start your trial and login to it.

My issue is with the tone, not the content. I think that Reddit has normalized this style of discourse, and Lemmy is unfortunately imported this as well.

Or maybe it's a generational thing and this prevalent smugness is a way for teenagers to show detachment since everyone seems to be socialized through screens nowadays?

I don't know, really, but it's not something that should be considered socially acceptable.

You could fix it with a relay, or having the instances conn extend with the rest of the Internet through a VPN/proxy.

Yeah, a PITA but can still be worked around.

They know it already.

Anyway, it is interesting that this particular case is better handled by something like Nostr.

But blocking the instance at the DNS level does not stop the content from reaching other Russian instances, right? They would have to basically track every server that is federating with them and block like this.

I wasn't giving "legal advice", but okay... The article is not exactly clear about the source of the material being distributed, so perhaps the case would be different if he could have proved having bought the original movies.

Anyway, you are right. We are living in a world where people can be sued over sharing files with friends and family, so those that are afraid of it shouldn't do it. Still, It doesn't make it any less acceptable and we should all be sad about this being the state of affairs. Reading these articles make me want to double down on "pirating" stuff and refuse any corporate service. Copyright law needs an urgent reform, but I doubt we will see anything until we break corporation's business models.

Not the point, but arguing any further is pointless. When/if anyone gets an actual lawsuit because of their Plex/Navidrome/Funkwhale server being shared with friends and family, I'll (sadly) concede.