Muddybulldog

Lots of steps to “figure it out”. Could’ve just pinged the hostname.

Not a big secret. Pretty sure they even announced it.

As you suspect, only during the sixty or so seconds that they are valid.

SMS-based codes tend to be longer lived.

They’re useless without your other authentication factors, e.g. login, password.

Funny thing being that the only reason SONY is in gaming was to screw Nintendo. They had a hardware partnership that fell apart because SONY was putting the thumbscrews to Nintendo over revenue sharing. Nintendo said, you’re not the only one who can provide what we need, and dumped them. PlayStation was the direct result.

You’re missing the forest through the trees if your take is that anyone is directly comparing the severity of these two issues. The point is that any instance owner that doesn’t have the proper framework in place to mount a legal argument or defense is in a highly vulnerable position regardless of the content.

Being in the right doesn’t matter if you can’t afford the price tag associated with proving it. Just responding to a subpoena or a lawsuit has a non-zero cost associated with it.

BC titles remain available through the current store.

True dat. I’ve been running it about seven weeks and am pulling about 700 communities. Most have near zero traffic but the high volume ones do add up.

42G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/
12G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/postgres
30G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/pictrs

By design, yes, but there’s a number of things that can go wrong that can cause the remote instances to not receive (or comply with) the instruction to do so.

I use Lemmy Community Seeder. Every four hours it checks the top posts on instances you specifies and automatically subscribes you to communities that appear there but you aren’t already subscribed to. You can tweak it to ignore specific communities or instances.

It’s actually a “mirror” moreso than a cache. There’s a complete, distinct, URL for each piece of mirrored content, that points a specific server and is indexable by search engines independent of the original. Instances ARE hosting the data directly.

Not sure which part of that law you’re going with but I appreciate the arrogance of quoting US law as a silver bullet on a global platform in a thread started on a server in Germany.

Those parentheses are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

I 100% agree with your assessment regarding relative level of risk. On the other hand, knowing LW is hosted in Finland by a German provider does multiply their risk solely by virtue of geography.

Very few instances have proper resources for general moderation never mind sorting out the “hard questions”.

The troll that started this shitshow knew exactly what they were doing. Once the admins were “alerted” they had to act in order maintain “safe harbor” provisions afforded to communications carriers and platforms. While I’m most familiar with the US DCMA, similar legislation and provisions exist in the EU and other locales. Problem is, remote community moderation is somewhat hit or miss right now due to shortcomings in the platform itself. That’s if you even have the resources to look through everything and make a “reasonable” determination on a post by post or comment by comment basis. While I don’t agree with the decision to block these communities I do see how the admins may have reached the conclusion that to do so was their only viable choice, at the moment.

Let’s take the inflammatory subject solely to make a point.

If someone posted CP to !disney_pictures@lemmy.xyz, that content is then immediately copied to every instance that has at least one subscriber to !disney_pictures@lemmy.xyz. It now appears on NEW of the community and the front page of every single one of those instances. It’s not a link to the content, it’s the actual content, hosted on every single once of those instances.

You not convinced there’s the potential for liability for every single one of those instances and their admins?

Are you fully versed on all global laws that directly or indirectly target piracy and copyright infringement? Particularly the really murky ones regarding “facilitating infringement”.

I’m not.

Reddit has a very large, well paid legal team on retainer and the cost of litigation is factored in to their business model. Reddit prevailed in this case and likely spent at least a year of LW’s operating costs doing so.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re right, it’s a matter of being able to afford to prove you’re right.

This is an inaccurate statement. Looking just at US law (there’s plenty of others), CDN’s that reside or operate within the US are required to comply with DMCA takedowns and any other legal requests made of them. Failure to do so jeopardizes their protection under Section 230 of the DCMA. They 100% can be held civilly and criminally liable for what’s in their cache. The US provides a pass, by law, as long as they maintain due diligence.

That’s actually very similar to what this story about Reddit was all about. The film studios were trying to build a case to have RCN stripped of their S230 protections.

That’s one thing that is constantly overlooked, Reddit IS and will remain “better” in this regard because they have commercial backing and revenue to hire lawyers and put up legal fights. “Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy” isn’t going to happen in the Fediverse because most instances don’t have the resources to start the fight, nevermind win it.

Admins and owners of instances can potentially be held criminally and civilly liable for anything that gets hosted on their instance.

To be fair, Hiro has also been very vocal about his willingness to fight these types of battles and has private investors that support those efforts.

Problem is, it IS hosted here. That’s the nature of the Fediverse. It doesn’t just create links to other instances, it creates distinct copies of content on each instance. I am neither viewing this post on lemmy.world nor responding to it via lemmy.world. I am interacting with a distinct copy hosted on mylemmy.win.

Your analogy to Google is flawed. Google links to content on other sites. Lemmy sites host distinct copies of content on each instance. While the communities aren’t @lemmy.world communities the content is 100% hosted on Lemmy.world by nature of federation.

• https://lemmy.ml/post/3375472
• https://lemmy.world/post/3234363
• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2148792

All this post. Hosted on three completely different instances, with different admins. “It’s not actually my community” doesn’t work in the Fediverse.