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Why aren't there that many people using Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by TimothyMcFuck@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I got banned from reddit (honestly feel a lot better without it)

But I miss being able to answer stupid questions and relationship questions.

Lemmy is great, but why aren't there that many people on here? I don't get it.

An I using my filters wrong or something?

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[–] coldhotman@nrsk.no 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is porn that is legal in one country but illegal in another. And there are people that don't want to host porn on their servers for other reasons.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Afaik only text is replicated and images are only hosted at the server (more specifically the pictrs instance) where it was uploaded. However, I don't know about the legal implications of linking to possibly illegal content.

[–] coldhotman@nrsk.no 2 points 2 years ago

I never thought about that, seems sound to me. Thanks for pointing that out.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but the same reasoning works for a lot of other content (about pirating, privacy, hacking tools etc).

[–] coldhotman@nrsk.no 3 points 2 years ago

That's true, and if an instance starts to share walkthroughs on how to i.e. create bombs or guns etc. every admin should question themselves if they should federate with the server.