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As an alternative to lemmy.world I would like to suggest my own instance endlesstalk.org.
I have no plans to deferate or ban anything releated to piracy. Only thing that might change my mind would probably be a company taking legal action against me.
I also strive to have as little downtime as possible and keep everything running smoothly.
only time would prove that ur instance would be reliable.
also ur instance won't be an exception: when corps deem that u hav a high enough usercount instance that is making piracy content accessible among users, they wouldn't hesitate to threat u legally, so federation with pirate instances shouldn't be a selling point, unless u have an unlimited stock of money to hire a lawyering firm.. still, i would gladly vouch for ur instance. We Lemmy as a whole can't do much against corp action: they have the financial means to afford legal action, or run unlimited ddos attacks for days, bringing Lemmy basically to its knees, we need to learn how to tread through this, instead of acting like tough guys.
Also hope more people come out and advertize their instance and vowing that they u would maintain it as humanly possible, cause i am running out of recommendations honestly
If your offering boils down to "the same that lemmy.world is offering" (other than with potentially better uptime lol,) then it's not that great an offering as you make it to be.
Lemmy.world does a great job(with a little downtime) and it is the same software we are hosting, so I can only see a couple of ways to make a better "offering"
I try to provide a better uptime and a different deferation/moderation policy. I don't have the skills to make visual customizations, but I have added multiple frontends(like lemmy.world).
I'm open to suggestions/ideas if there is anything else that could be done to improve the "offering".
(2.) mostly covers pretty much anyone one would want to do, offer-wise. It's also the aspect that's currently the most distinguishable across the instances marketplace. But the issue is, it's one thing to say that you are going to offer a different defederation / moderation policy ("we're going to allow piracy", for example) and another thing is sticking to it (", unless some legal threat"). If what you are saying is "I'm not gonna block piracy until it's somehow inconvenient for me", not only is that the same flat offering most of everyone else is making, but it's also a nebulous offering because it tells a new user nothing useful and offers no commitments: When is that "inconvenient" gonna be? What is the measure for "inconvenient"? What's gonna happen then? How will we know? (no, suddenly finding that the instance you had an account on now redirects to the FBI is not good enough).
Add more qualifications to your offering, such as:
If you add the JS-less frontends, you, like others who are doing it, are doing Yahweh / Arceus / Allah / Amaterasu 's work.
Thank you for clarifying(and sorry for the late answer).
For you (and anyone interested) I will answer the questions you asked.
If the legal threat is real(they have a real chance to win in a court) and there is nothing I could do(come to an agreement, move the hosting to another server etc), then I would close the server.
Server is hosted in Germany
As long as there aren't fines for keeping the website up or I get arrested, I would give a notice, so users can move to another server.
What's the difference between instances except federation and blocked communities? It's the same content anyways.