because our enemies have more of everything: more experience, more money, more slaves, more guns, ... so realistically, this is a lost battle, and it takes strong idealism to keep fighting

also, most people have jobs and families, so they have no time for such "nonsense"

i also wanted to post this comment to the same thread, but then i was banned

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here in germany, people are only slowly figuring out, how to refuse paying the "TV tax" (GEZ-gebühr, rundfunkbeitrag). this tax is used to produce government propaganda in the official TV channels, and the official narrative is: if you have a TV, then you must pay the TV tax. when people refuse to pay, they can go to jail. but now there is the beitragsblocker.de service, where you pay some money to lawyers, who send some fancy letters, and then "poof!" you dont have to pay the TV tax any more

there is always some "avantgarde", people who are ahead of their time, but usually, this is just a minority, and most people ("the normies") are just stupid, useful idiots for the government

something similar would be nice for handling the "cease and desist requests" which are the only attack vector of the copyright trolls. plus, they give you only 2 weeks to respond, so most people are surprised and shocked, and have no time for proper research. so an "insurance" would have to be pro-active, and reach people before the trolls do

most people believe that these corporations have a right to demand "damage repair", but this is wrong, because these trolls cannot prove any damage from filesharing

the trick is: they do have a legal right to demand a "cease and desist promise" where you promise "i will never upload that content again", so they send you a form that they want you to sign. problem is, if you give your signature on this original form, then you also promise "i will pay 1000 euros for damage repair". this payment is voluntary, they cannot enforce it in a court of law, but if you are "rich and stupid" and sign the original form, then you must pay, or they can take it by force

the cheap solution is to send a "modified form" (german: modifizierte unterlassungserklärung), where you only promise to never upload that content again, and nothing more. see also abmahnwahn-dreipage.de - i did this in about 20 cases, but since 2 years, i have been completely ignoring these letters. the trolls want money, and if you dont pa, they move on to "easy prey"

btw, also VPN is overrated, a waste of money. in germany, im seeding 300 torrents at 90% of my uplink with 100% uptime, and all i get are some "cease and desist requests" now and then, which i just ignore. i had PIA VPN for 40 eur/year and they were throttling my upload to 20%... no thanks. but enough people are "better safe than sorry" and enough people have too much money, so they buy a VPN to feel safe, but they dont need it in the first place

so much going wrong in this stupid world... : /

cheap excuse. there is nothing to "deconstruct" here. you can implement exactly the same anti-spam measures in a nostr relay.

i guess your problem is: you dont like competition. when i can host all the content from "your" relay, but with better moderation, then users will prefer my relay.

i see this stupid mindset all over the "warez scene". "my release", "my content", "my profit"... for fucks sake, you people just as stupid as the people who write copyright laws... the only question is: stupid or evil? scriptkiddie or CIA?

now you can ban me to prove my point : D

edit: also, you seem to have a problem with free speech. looking at your modlog, where you ban people for "Misogyny" or "transphobia" or "condescending". literally, this is worse than reddit.

please explain. me (and the nostr project) would love to hear your criticism.

also, relays are free to implement further anti-spam measures: captcha, email, phone, payment, ...

It’s anti-spam strategy is wishful thinking.

huh? relays can choose to block content.

my belief is that it will crash and burn due to trying to fix something unfixable.

abuse of power is fixable through nomadic identities and signatures. your lemmy instance will "crash and burn" when you decide to pull the plug. its funny to watch people trying "more of the same", naively hoping for the best with every iteration.

This is not a simple problem to solve and it exists nowhere online.

it is a solved problem. there are multiple implementations of the nostr protocol. nostr is newer than activitypub, so its less mature, but certainly a better foundation to build upon, ie more future-proof. nostr is similar to bittorrent: anyone can seed my content, and recipients can verify my content with my public key.

The fediverse however affords at least way more control than reddit or any forum where they can do the same and you have no options whatsoever

more control for admins, but not more control for users. i trust nobody, no admins, no moderators. sure, there are ways to archive and replicate an activitypub instance (just like reddit/twitter/facebook), but it is not a fundamental property of activitypub.

conspiracy ahead: these federated tools (activitypub, matrix chat) are "popular" because they enable censorship. nostr is promising censorship-resistance, but its not quite there yet.

I hope lemmy won’t die month later.

That’s literally impossible! An instance may go down, but it will stay cached.

not enough. the big problem with activitypub/fediverse/mastodon/pleroma/lemmy is the lack of "nomadic identities", which would allow full replication of my account on any instance.

without nomadic identities, you have the same vendor-lockin bullshit as with reddit/twitter/facebook: when they close your account, your content is gone. when a lemmy-instance closes your account, your content is gone.

see also: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-mastodon-and-similar-programs

1. chill. they will give you a short time to respond, usually just one week. ignore that, its bullshit. they will send another letter every week, increasing their demands. if they send letters with tracking, refuse to accept them, so they return to sender. they cannot prove that you got these letters.
2. ignore these idiots as long as possible. the only thing you MUST respond to is the big red letter from court, where they try to get a "title" over you, which means you MUST pay. reject their request 100%. pay them nothing.
3. maybe, if you are polite, send them a "cease and desist" letter, in german "unterlassungserklärung", where you promise to NEVER upload that content again. but not the original version! use the version from https://www.abmahnwahn-dreipage.de/ ("modifizierte unterlassungserklärung"). use a regular letter, no need for tracking. they actually have a right to go to court for this, but they rarely do, because court is expensive.

sadly, too many germans are stupid, so they pay the "fine" (its not a fine, its just a false demand by another citizen, zivilforderung). often its children who do the filesharing, and its the stupid parents who pay the fine and then hate their kids... or these lawyers love to send these letters for filesharing of porn, in the hope of destroying the relationship between husband and wife.

this should be basic knowledge for everyone in germany, then this shit would stop, and we could simply use torrents instead of stupid OCH/usenet.

its also funny that they demand repair of damages (schadensersatz) for content which is propaganda, causing mental damage or waste of time. see also: out of shadows (2020).