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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That's how I found it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus the downfall of the lemmy.fmhy.ml server, which had a pretty big and active piracy community too.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the fuck is that commy shit on c/news?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s hexbear.net, a tankie instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for answer

Ew, why lemmy has so many tankies

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although good for the active community, I don’t feel like it’s a great advertisement of lemmy for the wider public

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Piracy??? I thought this was a Pirates appreciation community!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is there no lemmy.world community at all? I'm pretty sure it has a lot of big communities

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is the reason why I self host my own private instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the hardware and network demand like ? I've been vaguely thinking of doing so myself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks, appreciated.

Edit

I assume you mean 1.35gb of network data per day ? As opposed to per minute / per second etc

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that is the total amount of network data used since I set it up yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I don't even know if it's set to private. If you mean browsing accounts from subscribed communities then yes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that Lemmy.world communities are not listed due to crawling issues.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.