I was referring to lemmygrad.

I also want to mention this happened at 2 or 3 AM EST, which only had 2 admins on, me and the hoster. I should’ve made a post, but given the severity, lack of info, and lack of staff members, we both decided to shut it down immediately until it was patched. I personally apologize for the downtime but I hope it’s understandable why we did it this way. In case something like this happens again, I’ll post it in the FMHY Divolt server.

Defederating from people who support bombing innocent people is not censorship 🤦

Doesn’t seem like it’s the majority of users or people on the instance. From nbats on disc:

I just need more proof they’re actually super malicious because most of the stuff linked was downvoted on exploding. in other words yeah shitheads exist there, but they don’t seem to be the majority really

EDIT: after some further discussion we’ve decided to defederate. we’ll be making a post sometime soon with a defederation policy.

If you guys can link some bad posts that are actively encouraged by the instance then I’ll add it to the blocked list. (This is why it isn’t blocked right now - all I’ve heard is that it’s just right wing, which doesn’t constitute a block.)

Those two seem pretty slow regardless, but you’re right, that’s not a big difference, so it could work… really, though, the main hurdle is popularity. Unless you’re operating like a private tracker (which is no fun), it’s going to be very hard to get both uploaders and users to it. You’ll have to somehow get a lot of people interested, starting without any content (or if you’re an uploader yourself, not a lot of content), not a lot of recognition, on a relatively new platform. With the added bonus of it being harder to access.

As in tor links don’t show up on regular search engines (like Google, DDG, etc.) It’s how most people find piracy sites.

Also, aren’t downloads incredibly slow? I know regular browsing is so I’d imagine downloads would be slower.

Closest thing would be the Usenet, which is paid. (Decently cheap, but still.)

Seedboxes and DMCA ignore VPS’s exist, which is how a lot of DDLs and streaming sites live. You can also encrypt it before uploading (although you’ll have to decrypt it afterwards.) For archiving, Telegram has 2GB file limits but is free and unlimited total storage.

I wonder why something like that hasn’t become a thing and gotten big.

Not only is tor not used by the majority of pirates, it also limits speeds by a lot. Not to mention you can’t index onion links in search engines. But I mean, you wouldn’t need a VPN with it, so…

If you have dev experience you can get in touch with us over on Divolt :) Otherwise the best way to improve FMHY is to help with the wiki. We have a #to-do channel on our server which is a great starting point.

As for project ideas specifically for FMHY, I don’t have any rn. We have a billion backups and projects like Divolt and Lemmy are additive (and really made for the whole community rather than just FMHY.) But maybe some of the other folks here have some ideas.

What’s supposed to happen is that if you’re the first person to look at a certain community, it’ll start fetch all of the previous posts and start indexing everything. However, since kbin is separate from lemmy and the two are only communicating via global fediverse tech, it only indexes new posts. That’s just my understanding though.

You could potentially run a backup site or a different lemmy instance, but that requires people possibly knowing your real IP and port forwarding (unless you use a VPN or port tunnel), technical knowhow, and constant uptime. If you don’t mind ruining the PC, you could also test software / cracks on there. (Turn off your internet if you’re planning on doing this.)

Honestly, the best way you can help is contributing to the wiki and helping people out in Divolt and on here. No extra computer needed.

Here’s a fun drinking game: take a shot every time image uploads break.

You’re best bet is to use an external host (catbox, imgbb, etc) for images in posts, and to leave icons / bgs empty. For whatever reason, uploading images on Lemmy can be pretty buggy and this is the best solution.

Also are there size limits (in pixels or kilobytes) for image uploads?

Not AFAIK but keep it under 10 MB if you wanna be safe.

no more funny number

0.18.0 doesn’t have captcha and apparently has some problems when upgrading, so we’re waiting on 0.18.1. (Shouldn’t take longer than a few days.)

np ig lol

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Yes, but not with Pi-Hole. It acts as a DNS server - you link it (either on your router or on your device), and it acts as middleware between the net, a standard DNS server (cloudflare, quad9, etc), and your device.

To set up a VPN, you can use something like Pritunl or Shadowsocks. Keep in mind, if you’re hosting at your own home, it’s more useful for accessing stuff remotely rather than for actual privacy / piracy. And for that case, I’d recommend ZeroTier since it handles basically everything.

You can certainly do special stuff with it - Pi Picos in particular are great for building your own hardware. But they’re really only meant for small sizes and power consumption. You really don’t need to hunt down for one otherwise.

1. Yes.
2. Yeah, Lemmygrad is the only one right now for obvious reasons.

You don’t need to have a Raspberry Pi in order to use Pi-Hole, you can just use a normal computer running Linux. I obviously agree with you though, I just got an iPhone X a few weeks ago and it’s super underwhelming, even with JB.