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Food for thought: Lemmy instance admins probably can’t afford $800 an hour corporate attorneys to fight off subpoenas.
Sure, but that's assuming the logs contain your ip in the first place.
Assume they do until proven otherwise
You can just look at the source code... no need to assume anything. You can't prove a negative lol
Oops, I accidentally fired the sd card containing my instance running on my raspberry pie.
If that is really how you do it, you won't need to fry it, it will happen soon enough by itself.
Seriously. Lemmy is a house made of patchwork quilt, with a bit of pine sap here and there to steady the few boards.
"Held together with bubble gum and duct tape" is the phrase I usually use
And this is why you VPN.
MFW I went to upvote but couldn't because "error: VPN blocked" 😑
Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I've never seen that one.
He's probably talking about reddit They no longer allow vpn's or any user obfuscators to browse the site
No they don't. I use the site with a VPN often and it generally works
Are you logged in? I can't access Reddit with a VPN if I'm not logged in
I can access old.reddit.com with VPN. The new shitty layout will block you but there are browser extensions to automatically redirect. I'm never logged in since I deleted my accounts a few months ago.
Thanks! Confirmed that it works with old reddit, just doesn't work at all for me using regular new layout, which sucks anyway.
I've been using a VPN with an account recently. Works fine.
Yes they do. The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur frequently enough to be obvious they are trying to keep their user dta drsgnet uninterrupted under the guise of "stopping bots".
No lmao, I tried to upvote his comment and Thunder spat out that error. A few subs have started doing that (or it's instance-wide but only for certain VPN servers) in the last week or so.
instagram definitely does this, reddit seems fine for me so far
Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don't do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There's a specific page it shows that basically says "come back without a VPN."
I don't think it does it if you're logged in and have cookies enabled.
Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I'll let you old.heads figure that one out.
The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur.
That would probably be because your instance is different. Lemmy.world has recently blocked VPN traffic apparently because of bad actors uploading CSAM behind VPN. I also had issues with Lemmy with my VPN this week and either need to split tunnel or need to browse Lemmy as view-only.
Those bad actors are really stupid, a VPN isn't going to protect them. You're not magically anonymous behind a VPN, and such material is obviously going to attract the attention of very skilled cyber security experts & law enforcements.
Idiots doing crimes never understand basic OpSec.
Would be a real shame if my instance's logrotate was set to, say, only keep a few days of webserver logs. Real shame.
Good luck establishing precedent with that!
Oh. They sued an instance? 😱
Anyway... here's another 5 hosted in Russia, or a country where piracy is legal, or just don't give a fuck.
ok but what if in losing the suit, they must give up the logs and IPs?
Before they go under?
like the instance and the people that discussed piracy will be hurt
and it will put fear in others
Not all instances keep logs...
Some intentionally discard them, look into the policys of the instance you're signing up to.
All your comments and posts are hosted on your parent instance then shared to the federated instances.
Some instances don't even let you sign up with an email or make it optional.
Lemmy.world keeps logs, but much more controversial instances often don't.
Also it's much more complex, because you have to think about the scope of the potential lawsuit as well as the given evidence that a user is actually sharing the material infringing on their copyright; which will not be a large amount of the user base. They can't simply sue a user for having an account, the user has to actively be sharing infringing material.
And, to be fair, a gofundme for stuff like this often gets full very fast
If the community is big enough to get sued it’s also big enough to spread a link for funding, easy