So one 2k movie per month? Fair enough if you are only download ebooks I guess.

If you have got enough local storage capacity then a regular vpn is still by far the cheapest option. Also if you only download from private trackers you might not even need a VPN, since ip trolls tend to stick to public trackers.

smug levels off the charts. gross.

We’re included in what the lead developer describes as “bottom of the barrel” “people rejected by civil society.”

That’s fucked up. And he’s the self-appointed “nice” [secret]police? Yikes.

Yeah, I didn’t know I had it in me! Death to Zionism. Such violence.

The post is about gamers, not corpo dogs.

Another archive link: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy

* In theory :p

Lol unless they are posting about specific pirated torrents, then it’s fine afaik. Upload ratio could be due to perfectly legitimate reasons such as linux images.

Yeah, I think repost bots are fine for certain use cases, but they should 100% be identified as bots, and not pretend to be a human account.

I don’t get how it’s a scam exactly, unless they are linking back to their community. But I agree it is a lot of low quality posts.

Update: Real-Debrid’s parent company, XT Network, responded shortly after we published this article. The company explained that the current situation is unrelated to the corporate restructuring. At the same time, it confirms that it indeed uses filters to block content. […]

The filtering actions it has taken are a response to keyword lists provided by trusted flaggers, which is in accordance with Article 16 of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Nah it looks like they just caved to the copyright mafia.

But “some control over modlog visibility” is inevitably going to be abused to protect problematic mods and admins. A right of reply, or a context field added to the modlog record would be a better approach, where subsequent actions can be listed and clarified. It’s also kind of amazing he just went ahead with these changes without broad consultation with piefed users or admins, or with the wider fediverse, since it effectively break normal federation.

If we go down to the core of the issue, there’s a fundamental disagreement between some instances on a niche use case: can the modlog be used for permanent slander, without giving people the option to reply?

To be fair, that is more a function of the modlog technical design in Lemmy, where ban reasons cannot be changed after the fact and federated out. It is not technically possible to provide a “right of reply” or to remove the comment from the modlog in either piefed or lemmy.

What we did do is talk to the folks who banned Rimu and MrKaplan, asked them not to do it again, and reversed the bans. And the admin who was involved also stepped down from his admin role. That’s about as much as could be reasonably expected to happen, given the technical limitations. And afaik Rimu never asked to be unbanned, that was simply an act of good faith on our part.

And despite all the effort we put in to smooth things over, Rimu has consistently refused to engage in good faith with any of our admins over this, instead spreading intentional falsehoods and drama-farming over multiple posts.

These recent changes to PieFed were simply a blatant extension of his kneejerk response to the whole situation. Instead of building useful functionality like a right of reply such as we have in fediseer, his approach is just to shadow ban our instance and break proper federation of mod logs for all PieFed instances.

These actions are not designed to protect users, they are designed to protect the fragile-egos of power tripping admins who will seemingly go to any lengths to censor criticism of their actions, whether those criticisms are legitimate or not. It’s childish behavior, and demonstrates Rimu has little commitment to the wider fediverse and the principles of transparency under which it operates.

To heap insult on top of injury, Rimu has now unilaterally, and without any notification (to anyone it would appear), chosen to silently suppress anarchist.nexus and quokk.au from appearing in the PieFed.Social instance chooser. So, just more of the same old trolling and drama farming from him that we have been getting for weeks now.

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Hi there, could you please provide me with a link to the comment, or to the modlog entry, so I can check it out?

Edit: you might want to send it via DM.

I came to this post late, but though I’d add my 2 cents since it’s an interesting topic.

Sin 1: Instance Selection Paralysis - is a legit issue but is mitigated somewhat now we have meta websites like https://join-lemmy.org/instances, though it would be good to have it hosted by a fully independent group that cannot be claimed to be partisan.

Sin 2: Timeline Turmoil - the suggested fix of “Cut the interface down to one feed” seems ridiculous to me. Having a quick and easy way to switch between different feed types like local/new vs subscribed/active was fantastic from day 1. Maybe mastadon users simply prefer a more basic experience? The article does seem very mastadon centric.

Sin 3: Remote Interaction Purgatory - seems like a valid complaint. I mainly stick to lemmy and piefed for this reason.

Sin 4: DM Disasters Waiting to Happen - also seems valid.

Sin 5: Ghost Conversations and Phantom Followers - seems to be mostly technically resolved by now.

Sin 6 (Part 1): Search Without Surveillance - this is basically impossible to implement, because LLMs and search engines do not care about your personal preferences, and will scrape everything that is public. Unless we achieve a 100% block rate on scrapers (not likely) then one should assume everything you type is subject to surveillance. And even then, any 3-letter agency could spin up a server and ingest all the federated content with nobody being any the wiser. An illusion of security is worse than no security imo.

Sin 6 (Part 2): Content Discovery Mirage - fairly interesting and I like the way you can create and publish feeds of communities on a specific topic, for example, on Piefed. Would be great if that feature came to Lemmy.

Sin 7: User Discovery Hell - I really don’t understand the difference between this one and the previous one. Both seem to be talking about sharing curated / aggregated feeds.