Humans who run instances are real people who have jobs and mortgages and kids. I also like having piracy communities around to balance the greedy ass corporations trying to control media and copyright…I’m glad to know they are there if I need them or feel like screwing around with it. I just wonder if the people ranting all indignantly acting like instances are competing for their usership would feel the same if the most active instance was on a server physically sitting in their basement, or paid for by money tied to them in the real world. Yes it seems pretty unlikely that you’re ever going to run into issues with law enforcement, copyright claims, lawsuits…but how much would you risk for a fucking hobby you do for free? Would you risk your house? Your job? I would not. Grow up. No one cares what instance you use.

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    1 year ago

    It’s as bad as “just watch something else” for movies.

    This is more like “I hate the way this movie looks on this TV!” when you have free alternative TVs you could use instead.

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      1 year ago

      This logic doesn’t even work for tvs. Even if I return a bad tv to get a better one, I’m still gonna leave a bad review on the amazon page.

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        1 year ago

        True, complaining that you think the instance sucks is valid - but I do think how inconveniencing it is should factor in. Since you can simply make a new account on a different instance and continue viewing the exact same content, getting too bent out of shape about it is a bit silly.