Why Lemmy's Piracy Community Outshines r/Piracy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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r/Piracy on Reddit is more of a meme subreddit. I've never seen any actual discussion or valuable information as I do on this community. Why is that?

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[-] pirate@lemmy.piracy.guide 3 points 1 year ago

There's still the corporate pressure from the host. I assume most people wouldn't be hosting Lemmy from their home for bandwidth/uptime reasons. Its hard to find a truly bulletproof VPS anymore. And they aren't cheap. With the VPS and storage you could be looking at $60-100 out of pocket.

Mine runs me around $55 a month and I have to rely on daily backups since it could be shut down with enough pressure.

Someone has to pay for this, which I imagine will be a problem eventually. I run mine for my own personal use, then I open the instances up with whatever resources I have left over. But if I was running an instance of 10,000+ users, I wouldn't be able to afford that.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

There should be an amount of privacy in running a VPS, I mean if your VPS is examining content on your server, time to find a new VPS. They could possibly get complaints about content. They have policies you have to sign off on to contract their services. At least it's a world away from using a site like Reddit where they own your content flat out.