On lemmy.world it is dead, you need to pop over to DB0 or ml.
The world admins have the stance that they don't want to host or directly link to piracy content because of the legal trouble it may bring as it's hosted in the Netherlands and the piracy rules are different here.
your instance blocks piracy related communities. here in dbzero there is a very active piracy scene, it's just defederated.
Piracy related communities are blocked on lemmy.world
Come over to db0! We are huge stans of piracy \o/
Lemmy.world blocks and bans all piracy content. Leave the instance if you need it.
TIL .world blocks more communities than I though.
I mean, I don't agree with everything dbzer0 (the instance) stands for, but it stands for freedom of speech and I'm with that.
It sounds like you want an account on dbzer0. You don't need to give up your .world account or leave .world; the nice thing about federation is you can actually be on multiple instances. It's kind of pointless in a way, but if your instance does something you don't like, you can still federate through another instance. dbzer0 is my main/home instance (I have one other because I was PieFed-curious), but for .world and other bigger instance users, it's a good side instance to keep an account with.
Another instance of all of this is that most instances defederate from the NSFW instance, so if you make an account there, your access to NSFW content is ensured. (Most defederate them for a good reason. I've never seen them post straight up CSAM, but they post stuff that blurs the lines. I think (and want to believe) they're on the legal side, but I believe the confusion and questionable nature is intentional. Which is why some instances have defederated them, in case they cross that line (or maybe they have before).
Lemmy.world tries really hard to follow the law. That means cracking down on illegal content. So yes, we are puritanical here.
At the very bottom is a menu with an entry called "Instances". Click that to see lists of linked and blocked instances.
Come to lemmy.today. everything is unblocked (probably)
Because you’re on a shit instance with terrible administration.
Personally I'm 📱 only so pirating is whatever streaming site works the best. Agreed that Lemmy could use more though, even if I can't use it. Maybe Lenny is full of mobile phone chuds like me?
Everything here is dead in comparison to Reddit. Reddit has huge numbers of users and enough users to have constant active participation in even very niche communities. Lemmy has very limited numbers of users. You certainly won't find niches here. Even popular things like piracy or even games and movies don't get anywhere near as much active participation. The population here is also very different (very tech adept, mostly politically left, mostly older/millennial). People might just not need to ask any piracy questions because they've got a good handle on it anyway. Lemmy is nothing like Reddit. You mostly can't expect as much engagement with your posts. I don't even bother with subscribing to communities because they have such little content that it's pointless to browse anything other than "all". On Lemmy you only get what you get.....whether you consider that a good or bad thing is up to you.
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