Even the Discord and Buymeacoffee page got taken down. This is larger than any other DMCA I know of

Edit: even the Telegram has been nuked. Yup, Telegram

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[–] 113 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Yet another reminder that GitHub is not your friend, but also that borderline projects shouldn't be hosted on anyone else's server other than your own, you'll possess all the repository data, but you'll also be made to shut down anyway if on the clearnet, so I wonder if it's possible to host a forge through Tor/i2p or others.

Still, this is clearly wrong on who sent the DMCA, the apps never host the content, I hope they can get back up.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    there are already many forges hosted through i2p, I imagine the same can be said for tor. That doesn't mean the host can't ban you there as well though.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I doubt this is larger than when MegaUpload got DMCA'd.

    But yes, it's pretty big.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago

    Imo this is why big projects that are borderline like this should use github alternatives, preferably self hosted solutions. This was always going to happen.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Maybe they changed something since I used it the last time when it came out but I find the UI to be horrible.

    It's a Manga UI used for watching anime. I rather have a UI with beautiful animations. Saikou has one of the most beautiful UI I've ever seen in an app.

    While I love Tachiyomi (J2K) as a Manga reader and I think it's the best one on any platform, it's not great as a Streaming app designed as a streaming app (I know Saikou isn't just a streaming app and you can also read Mangas in it, but I rather use Tachiyomi for that)

    Edit: just checked it out. Nope still a Manga app UI for an anime streaming app with horrible discoverability and you can't switch between different sources easily. The sources are cool I guess, but I don't need those. You also can't add something on Anilist and automatically have it added to your "continue watching" list.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hopefully they had backups elsewhere. This is why piracy apps need to at least try a little to not make their github so obviously a piracy app.

    I hope @MonetarySqueeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com updates reiverr to use open source movies from the blender studio for the images/gifs so it can be passed off as a media app for non piracy related streaming

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    why is the DMCA the one area the government has apparently unlimited power and resources

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Just use aniyomi, it's not locked to anilist

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

    But I like Anilist. And the UI and features of Saikou

    The UI of Tachiyomi isn't made for Anime. It's a Manga app and it's great for that, but it's horrible for Anime

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

    It has anilist too, that's what I use. I had never even heard of saikou before so haven't used it but I've never had any issues with aniyomi. It's perfectly functional in finding anything I want to watch and looks good. Can't do anything about your subjective preferences though.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Just that Saikou isn't just an anime streaming app. It's also an Anilist client. And it's beautiful and I love the animations and video player features like a skip intro button and it's generally just beautiful. You also can read Manga with it, but I honestly prefer Tachiyomi for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Aniyomi already has Aniskip (skip intros) integrated and can connect to your Anilist account to update your entries, automatically if you enable that, or manually.

    I almost never go to the actual Anilist interface anymore, it works great.

    I also use it to read a lot, and it has extensions for everything including Drama, Movies, Hentai, Porn...

    For me it was always the best app.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Ehh, not for me.

    Like I said before it's an Manga app that added Anime streaming functionality. I still use Tachiyomi for Manga though.

    With Aniyomi I can't easily discover new anime, continue watching ones I added on Anilist on my PC and have this beautiful UI with really good, switch sources with a press of a button and have these fluid animations.

    Just look at this: Screenshot_20230929-184148

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The dev of Saikou made an announcement on the Discord about this

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 years ago*

    Lol. Somebody reposted my post on reddit: reddit.com/r/animepiracy/comments/16v4jru/saikou_the_best_anime_streaming_app_on_android/

    I don't mind at all and am kinda happy.

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Man when they finally git repo federation will be available...

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    What is git repo federation? Why will this help?

    I thought git is a very decentralized technology?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Well, Git is still centralized. Typically there's only one main location where work on a project happens - a Git forge like GitHub, or in the simplest scenario just an SSH server.

    Federation will help because it will allow working on a project in one forge from another forge. You could e.g. create a pull request on your own self-hosted forge (e.g. Forgejo instance) and then submit that pull request on another forge that's hosted somewhere else. GitHub taking down a repo wouldn't be as annoying, since people would still have the main sources of their pull requests in their own forges. And GitHub wouldn't be able to remove their fork for whatever reason.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    I believe that Git is decentralized. Because people choose to use Git hosting services doesn't make Git itself centralized. Git doesn't force you to sign up on GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. You can use git-appraise to get decentralized code reviews. You can use git-bug to get decentralized issue tracking. You can always send maintainers patches with the built-in send-email command as GitHub/GitLab/... require an email address either way. You can always clone and push the repository somewhere else. Most (self-hosted) Git hosting services provide an automated migration procedure for issues, discussions, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Like Git x activityPub 🤔 seems doable, or where would be problems? Just something like pipeline, which creates an activity post including the commits🤔🤔

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Question - What happens if we are hosting a Git repo ourselves, like using Gitea or something, and we receive a DMCA takedown request and we refuse? I mean, they can take down the domain, but what if weare hosting on a personal homeserver and keep changing domains whenever they take one down?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago*

    Then it's your choice to comply, call their bluff, or do whatever you want. I've seen people who doxxed the DMCA sender and made threats towards the sending agent (the hoster was Russian).

    Though best course of action would be to comply or ignore it, don't do what that guy did, best to keep quiet than to stir up trouble.

    Outright refusal or ignoring it does come with the risk of litigation (threats can accelerate it or lead to prosecution) assuming you're within their jurisdiction.

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Can you link their telegram?

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