Have you checked there lately? It’s gotten even worse.

They haven’t really left us a choice.

Even now - it’s distinct from what I’d call social media.

Despite the admins best effort.

Is Fark social media?

I wouldn’t think so, but reddit feels closer. But not the strictict definition. Similar to the YouTube debate tbh.

It was a forum, not a hellsite.

What time frame are you referring to?

I’m trying not to be pessimistic but all I can think is that or they’re going to take a greater portion of royalties from the artists who already have a very small percentage.

And then they’ll go and train their AI models on it for free and without permission either way.

Despite going through being acquired a couple times themself, for now I still have to recommend Bandcamp. But I’d love to learn about freer alternatives that also support artists.

I worry a lot of tracks, especially from smaller artists, are going to be removed.

This is truly devastating news. Major labels are going to heavily abuse direct access to this database.

I regret ever contributing.

Rofl

Who are your referring to? I’m not gong to buy it. He’ll, we don’t even know the price.

Do you have a habit of reading things on Steam?

You and I have had very different experiences. I don’t mean to invalidate yours however.

There’s some rogue admins and mods, sure, but I haven’t come up against them much in over two years and it’s not like I’ve been walking on eggshells.

Where have you experienced this the most? Certain instances or mods?

Edit: and fwiw, in my eyes it was clear from the beginning that dot world set out to be reddit on the fediverse

And I remain relatively neutral on this. It’s their hardware, resources, and time. I didn’t have to sign up there.

The Seattle company will pay $1 billion in civil penalties — the largest fine in FTC history, and $1.5 billion will be paid to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from canceling their subscriptions, the agency said Thursday. Eligible Prime customers include those who may have signed up for a membership via the company’s “Single Page Checkout" between June 23, 2019, and June 23, 2025.

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Technically yes, but generally the instance rules are pretty similar. If you want to be extra cautious it’s worth checking however. For example lemmy.world is stricter about discussing piracy methods than most other instances are.

Edit: to elaborate, there are some instances with wildly different rules, and as a lemmy.zip user you may encounter some at the more extreme ends. My instance automatically blocks some of the more extreme ones so I never see their communities or users. Yours has a more open policy iirc.

You can view the list of federated and blocked instances of yours on this page.

Be warned however, anyone can make a Lemmy instance and you probably don’t want to explore the ones yours decided necessary to block. Look at the list but don’t open the domains.

This page is a better representation

You are also appreciated. Thank you for this post.

You’re welcome. It’s one of the best features of Lemmy (and broader threadiverse). There’s alternatives to Lemmy like piefed and mbin but they share communities with Lemmy. Some piefed users even commented here.

When

An optimist, I like that, never lose it.

At the bottom of each instance is their modlog. Here’s Lemmy.zip’s for example. You can search your username

As @cabbage@piefed.social mentioned, you’re signed up at Lemmy.zip, not Lemmy.ca. This community was created at lemmy.ca’s instance and therefore you must follow their rules, your instance’s rules, as well the individual communities.

Its not as bad as it may sound.

1. From individual servers (instances), yes, but each one would have to manually ban you.

2. Again, Lemmy isn’t (a single) server. Instances are run by volunteers and enthusiasts so each will have their own. The rules for your instance that you signed up at will be in the sidebar of the main page.

3. You do not. As evident by this very post.

Edit: fixed link to lemmy.zip instead of the instance of this community’s

Supremacist