Humans who run instances are real people who have jobs and mortgages and kids. I also like having piracy communities around to balance the greedy ass corporations trying to control media and copyright…I’m glad to know they are there if I need them or feel like screwing around with it. I just wonder if the people ranting all indignantly acting like instances are competing for their usership would feel the same if the most active instance was on a server physically sitting in their basement, or paid for by money tied to them in the real world. Yes it seems pretty unlikely that you’re ever going to run into issues with law enforcement, copyright claims, lawsuits…but how much would you risk for a fucking hobby you do for free? Would you risk your house? Your job? I would not. Grow up. No one cares what instance you use.
It doesn’t need to be every country - just one.
Not very easy to open an LLC in a different country
In what countries was Reddit registered in then?
Don’t know. USA I guess? Why does it matter
Because they had no problem allowing r/piracy to exist before everything went to shit
Ye but people in Europe can’t just open an llc in the USA
They can, it’s just called a SRL^1 in most countries
Edit: i mean they can open an equivalent loclaly (GmbH^2, AB^3, etc)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRL
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschränkter_Haftung
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiebolag
I am aware and this is what my original comment was referring to. It’s not always easy to open one of these.
The domain is registered in Finland, so someone at the top must live or have a proxy presence there.