Likely a combination of the community having more tech savvy individuals + realising Reddit would fuck over r/Piracy eventually, making more of them follow dbzer0 here when they were overthrown.
Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That’s how I found it.
Plus the downfall of the lemmy.fmhy.ml server, which had a pretty big and active piracy community too.
What happened to them?
govt of mali let use freenom .ml domains, then freenom removed them for reasons, one of reasons being that it got traction. (?) they have moved since to fmhy.net
Oh yes, I have heard a lot of cases like this related to freenom. They deactivate domains that get traction and resell them at a premium (mostly to spammy ad networks that hoard domains).
That’s kinda strange, not gonna lie. I was expecting a lot more subs in the meme communities etc.
I do find it interesting that when lemmy instances are mentioned, lemmy.dbzer0.com is mentioned as an afterthought, if at all :D
I reckon it’s probably a good thing we are flying under the radar in the media tbh. Media attention might draw other forms of unwanted attention. It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out over the next year or so though. Those meme communities have a lot of growth potential given their demographic.
Reddit desperately wants its piracy community back, not knowing that the ship has sailed arr
Reddit will ban the community anyways in the future. That will 100% happen.
A self hosted forum for piracy discussion is always the best choice. I personally prefer cs.rin.ru over lemmy or reddit.
My understanding is that there had been an ongoing concern on /r/piracy that they would get shut down at some point, that this had been a concern in the past, and so the other stuff like the API restrictions and the rest of the spez drama was kind of just adding to the big factor pushing people away – that the community could vanish at any time.
The lead mod on /r/piracy also set up a dedicated instance – there was definite commitment – made it clear that he was making the move, and was demodded on /r/piracy, so there were factors creating more inertia.
Those are all factors that did not generally exist for other communities.
Keep in mind that Lemmy.world communities are not listed due to crawling issues.
Well that’s a huge caveat. I bet their communities would be bigger then.
Yes but actually not by much, !technology@lemmy.world has 37.7k subscribers, which is their biggest community
Although good for the active community, I don’t feel like it’s a great advertisement of lemmy for the wider public
Piracy??? I thought this was a Pirates appreciation community!
Eh I think it’s pretty neat. Means a majority of users are tired of or willing to subvert capitalism in some aspect and that gives me hope.
Why is there no lemmy.world community at all? I’m pretty sure it has a lot of big communities
Putting all of the large communities on a single instance is just reddit with more steps. It’s good that one of the larger Lemmy communities is not also on the largest Lemmy instance. Lemmy.world suffers a lot of outages (in part because it’s so centralized), meanwhile this community remains available.
That is the reason why I self host my own private instance.
Just out of curiosity
I have my own instance (gadgetro.id), but it isn’t set to private. Are you still able to browse other accounts on the fediverse from your instance when set to private?
I don’t even know if it’s set to private. If you mean browsing accounts from subscribed communities then yes.
What’s the hardware and network demand like ? I’ve been vaguely thinking of doing so myself.
My friends instance, crystals.rest, is hosted on a $5/mo Linode with 1GB of RAM
The lxc container in Proxmox is at around 500 MB of ram usage, 1.35 GB of network traffic, and less than 1% CPU usage. Although I’m the only one using the instance.
Thanks, appreciated.
Edit
I assume you mean 1.35gb of network data per day ? As opposed to per minute / per second etc
Yeah that is the total amount of network data used since I set it up yesterday.
german instances are stable overall, so they can afford the high community user count
So dbzer0.com points to a German server?
I’m interested in how the workload is split up, the database is the weak link right?
Edit: dude, it’s a fast server, GG
dbzer0.com is german yea, so is discuss.tchncs.de and feddit.de: and they are reliable
What the fuck is that commy shit on c/news?
That’s hexbear.net, a tankie instance
Thanks for answer
Ew, why lemmy has so many tankies
Because people here are tired of being exploited by corps I would assume.
Also it’s a teenage thing. No money but wants to play all the latest games. :)
I used to download every single game when I was a kid.
