This is the magnet i’ve got:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e1610f5c681bbe8e908ddb7f73dc890899994f4&dn=gta%20v%20source%20code&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

I actually don’t have a torrent client installed right now so i haven’t checked if this is correct, you tell me lol

GTA6 doesn’t release until 2025 so there’s even time for them to make the game great while it’s still the latest in the series.

At the same time, the hacking problem in vanilla GTA:Online is going to get even worse now than it already was.

Overall, it’d say this is good for the likes of FiveM and bad for the vanilla game?

I feel strongly that we should defederate, but i really like your reasoning for being neutral. The fediverse is currently a small community of advanced internet users who see themselves as separate from mainstream users, and the temptation is to gatekeep.

This is just a different manifestation of a core problem the fediverse has: it can get annoying to try to interact with content outside of your own instance.

And then we wonder why people flocked to Threads instead of Mastodon.

I really think the federated aspect should be almost invisible infrastructure, like how we never think about OpenSSL behind the scenes when we make a secure payment. There’s even a browser plugin to simplify Mastodon federation, so it can’t be that hard. Frankly, something even more seamless than that should be the default.

But it wasn’t designed this way for whatever reason, i’m sure there’s good reasons but it’s hard to empathize when i follow a link and suddenly i find myself in a new place where i’m not logged in, even though this “place” is still on Lemmy.

It’s the same thing that makes any social media attractive: everybody else is there and it’s where things are happening. This critical mass of users is the hardest thing for a website to gain and the hardest to lose.

I think when they say ‘illegal content’ they mean, like, drugs and terrorism. Piracy probably ranks pretty low on the list.

Now yes the definition of piracy technically fits in the definition of ‘illegal content’, but just because two definitions intersect doesn’t mean you will get the logical consequences. The word of the rules is one thing, the rules in practice is another, so i think you can get away with a lot regardless of instance.

Besides, do the rules apply to the instance where you have your account, or to the instance where you’re posting/commenting? I genuinely don’t know