because we were already receiving takedown requests

How are you dealing with these now?

have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves

Is this just in relation to the attacks or also the content, can you share anything?

If the original post gets hit with DMCA and the original host instance complies, does it get removed from all instances?

Torrent sites exist solely to serve up torrents. Lemmy is just an aggregate of many, many sites, it can’t possibly vet every single one, and if it tries then we are on the path to censorship.

Same “loophole” Google uses? Net neutrality etc. All internet traffic is equivalent?

How is it understandable? These are not Lemmy.world communities so there was little reason to remove them.

First they came for the communists.

I’m not sure about the legal implications here. None of those communities are on Lemmy.world, google isn’t liable for websites that exist so a lemmy instance shouldn’t be liable for a community just because it exists.

Surely there is a way to rate limit clients so that normal users are rarely effected but a DDOS would need thousands of clients to be effective?

Elon Musk, Donald Trump and that Greedy Pigboy.

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