Cross-posted from ["Announcement regarding the instance..."](https://lemmy.autism.place/post/747418) by @[email protected] in [email protected] --- It is with great sadness that i write this. however The Admin team has parted ways. I have closed registrations, and disabled the option to create new communities. The server will be ran until the payments dry up (about ~1-2 months). We have tried to build a community for autistic people online. It ended up not working for which we apologize. Please do not go after the other team members. Some disappeared, some went their ways, but whatever the reason i wish them the best. If you have any questions, leave them here and i will try to answer them.

Note that this doesn't work for everyone. I find that gamifying your own tasks is a bit like trying to tickle yourself.

I've recently started playing Sea of Thieves, so thought it would be a good idea to start a community about it. Since the largest pirate community is on the Divisions by zero, I thought it would be fitting to have the SoT community there as well :)

A community to post about bots, scripts, bridges, and even apps that use the Lemmy API

[This is my best summary of this situation](https://hachyderm.io/@db0/111103424978269058), as I understood it as someone from the outside looking in. [However mastodon.art](https://mastodon.art/@simcha/111103704573744361) is firing back that this is all due to low-key bigotry by the admin of artisan.chat inside secret discord channels, which has been going on for a while. Blogposts linked with accusations against each other.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/788923 > Hey everyone, today I sadly woke up to a distressing email by my provider, telling me that "Waves Audio Ltd" (`http://waves.com`) sent them a takedown request about a guide posted to crack their app. This is complete bullshit of course, but the provider threatened to shut off my whole IP address. For now I've taken down the post, but I've also initiated measures to avoid this in the future. > > As such, we've now moved this site to be hosted by [njal.la](https://njal.la/) which is privacy focused and has a ton of experience handling such issues. Let me know if you notice anything weird during the transition period. > > However they are significantly more expensive! As such I've had to adjust our server costs for the next 6 months, and therefore our Ko-fi goal has been re-opened. [Please consider donating](https://ko-fi.com/db0) to ensure this site can survive these particular gray waters we're sailing. > > I aim to ensure we are strictly legal, but these companies do not care about the law because they have enough money to bully people. > > Remember, **do not post direct links** and use base64 encoding for any potentially spicy links you post!

I'm already loving the quality of posts and discussions I'm seeing here. There's a reason why we're consistently in [the Top 10 of all lemmy communities](https://browse.feddit.de/)! With all the reddit 3rd party apps shutting down today (RiP Sync) I expect to see a big influx of users. And our new user application inbox is overflowing as well. I hope y'all will put the new blood through the steps! Keep up the great content mates!

Db0's note: Not **quite** about piracy, but very very close to be relevant to us. cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/766679 > This is just one action in a coming conflict. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Does the record industry win and digital likenesses become outlawed, even taboo? Or does voice, appearance etc just become another sets of rights that musicians will have to negotiate during a record deal?

There's only one choice here...

It hasn't even been a week, y'all! I wonder who's left back at "Boolicker's Cove". :D

I'm also going viral on mastodon. WTF is going on?! :D

A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.  Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much. Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.

[Relative link to be able to subscribe](/c/[email protected])

Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit. For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/

The original /r/piracy was purposefully gimped because Reddit received DMCAs for any random thing and didn't even bother to follow up. Since we're in new waters, I want things to be a bit more relaxed, but there's a limit on **how** relaxed we can be, without starting to get lawsuits, which I will not be able to fight off. I also host other communities and interests which might cause me headaches. Remember, this is a hobby project (and [none of you scurvy dogs are donating](https://ko-fi.com/dbzer0)) :D So here are some piracy-related ground rules **for he whole of lemmy.dbzer0.com** as of today 1. **No direct links**. This means anything which would make Nintendo or Disney light my ass on fire. I am not going to ban you for it (unless you start doing this on purpose), but I will ask admins and mods to remove them. 1. **You can link to websites pages related to piracy**. Linking to websites linking to your content (not with a 301 redirect, before you ask) is OK. In general try to keep one degree of separation between our collective groins and your links. 1. **Magnet Links and links to Torrent files are OK**, unless we start getting into trouble for it. 1. **/c/piracy has its own, more restrictive rules**. Follow them first when they differ from what I post here! /c/piracy is for generic discussion, I don't want it to turn into a link repository full of beggars, got it? 1. These rules apply to all pirate communities in lemmy.dbzer0.com. Unless that community has more restrictive rules from its own mods. I can easily get a lawsuit because you start making a nintendo ROM link repository. 1. **You can still post direct links elsewhere**: If you want a place to post direct links, I suggest you use a community on a server setup to handle this. This requires some significant investment in anonymity and hosting provider (these providers are 3x as expensive, yo!). You can still subscribe and share from those communities with your account in lemmy.dbzer0.com, which can serve as your "port of safety" as those lemmies could be taken down due to those links. If that happens, this safer community will still be up. All in all, this lemmy is supposed to be **Pirate-allied**, but not a direct link repository. I literally cannot handle that legal risk at the moment. I hope you all understand the realities of our situation. As much as we can argue that a link to a file is not infringing, the Cartel's legal fund is bottomless, and all I have is a tinsy-tiny treasure chest under my birdbath. If any pirate communites need to migrate after this, I understand. I would still suggest you keep them around as the "safe" community, and post your link aggregation on a lemmy instance which can handle the eye of sauron. This way you get both a stable community and account, and your links via fediverse. Win-win.

If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they've got another thing coming...

I had created an ADHD community in my own instance, but I realized this one exists as well and has more subscribers. So I am converting mine to ADHD memes instead so as to not dilute the overall engagement. Link via your own instance: [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

No Banter. No Barter. No Quarter.

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There’s too much controversy around the official lemmy instance lemmy.ml due to their politics. However I really like the distributed nature of lemmy as opposed to the monolithic and hierarchical nature of raddle. So I guess, I have to do this myself. This is now the official fallback forum for /r/piracy, away from toxic politics but still vehemently anti-copyrights. For now I’m allowing the posting of magnet links, but don’t link files directly as I don’t want the eye of Sauron on me. You can use this instance to browse [the previous piracy community too](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/[email protected]) and post with your account from here! They’re unrestricted, so feel free to post links there ;)