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  • Mordikan@kbin.earth
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    1 month ago

    I noticed some comments saying “You can’t pirate free software”. I would take that as a challenge, so here’s how to pirate Lemmy.

    Firstly, “free” software is extremely rare. Lemmy isn’t free, its governed by the AGPLv3. Per the AGPLv3, if you pull the author attribution/licensing text, say “I made this” , and start distributing it out, you’ve committed copyright infringement and illegally distributed it (piracy). So, that means we CAN pirate Lemmy:

    1. Fork the existing Lemmy repo into our own project
    2. Remove all reference to the original authors and licensing and put your own name on it.
    3. Change the name to something else and start sharing it out.
    4. Optionally charge money for it

    NOTE: Never let someone tell you that you can’t do something.

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    1 month ago

    If you dislike the tankie dev of lemmy why are you using their software? Use X, a fascist CEO seems more like your style.

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      1 month ago

      It is a decentralized open source communication protocol offered for the public’s use, which means people can modify their instances and generally do, say, or think anything they want in regards to the original founders of the project.

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        1 month ago

        Yeah it’s FLOSS and you can do whatever you want with it - no doubt due to the leftist beliefs of the authors.

        Regarding doing saying and thinking whatever one wants - yeah I didn’t censor anyone, I’m not an unhinged mod with an appetite to ban anyone who disagrees with me - and there’s no way to stop someone from thinking whatever they want anyway wtf are we even talking about?

        I just thought it’s in bad taste to use someone’s FLOSS software whilst calling them slurs. Alternatives exist which would be more aligned ideologically with OP’s beliefs, that’s all.

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          I don’t know if I’d really call Tankie a slur just because “tankies” don’t use the term. That’s like saying Thatcherite, carpet bagger, TERF or brownshirt are slurs. You may not identify with the term but we have a long way to go before its a slur.

        • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          25 days ago

          I just thought it’s in bad taste to use someone’s FLOSS software whilst calling them slurs.

          You are decidedly not a protected class for being a tankie, homie.