Just join dbzer0, we already have the piracy community
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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I've joined there a while ago. It will likely be our next home.
"We're gonna be the instance for everybody! Not you. Not you. Not you either. Ew. Not you. Who let all this riff-raff into the room?"
Between that and the constant downtime, this account might be short-lived.
They are literally going through the same pains as any other social media sites that start getting big. Every social media site wants to be "all-inclusive" until you have to start worrying about content moderation and liability. Shit gets intense.
As for the "downtime," they've done posts about it. They are being constantly DDOS'ed by someone (assuming another defederated instance owner). And given your annoyance of it, it sounds like the DDOS is working as intended. The instance admins have done a fantastic job so far and I intend to wait it out.
Yes, I've also made accounts on some other instances. Not made the jump to run my own yet, the code base is not yet sufficiently stable nor are the moderation tools yet there.
What if the community shifted to an already-existing one?
That's run by shrine, who I no longer trust.
Do you mind elaborating? Is there something you could share that provides more context?
I know shrine from another place and used to trust him. However, among other things, he silently dropped privileges on other mod accounts on /r/libgen and /r/scihub. I wanted to point you to a pinned post of mine for the gory details, but that seems to be no longer there. I'm not going to check the mod log who cleaned up but just going to assume it was him.
So, I no longer trust him to be a good steward of a community and will not work with him on any project.
Oh no
Anyway
You seem to see drama where there is none. It's simply about finding a more suitable location. I could run an instance myself, but I don't trust myself to make it sustainable enough.