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Lemmy.world is hosted in the Netherlands, which are notorious for going after people just for "promoting" piracy. They don't care if you're actually breaking the law, they will just make your life hard. And that's not something I'd want to deal with in addition to hosting a free service.
No. It’s hosted in Finland. Ruud is Dutch, though.
You're right, I must've gotten that mixed up. Still, Ruud is based in the Netherlands and I'm not sure how the hosting laws work across country borders. Strangely enough, the-federation.info lists lemmy.world as hosted in the United States...
I asked about that a while ago and apparently it has to do with a VPN or something.
Yeah, they use CloudFlare so it would look like that.
Although he posted that he had to follow strict German anti piracy laws 🤷🏻♂️
Because the company with the servers in Finland is German.
Interesting that they wouldn't say as much themselves in any of their writings about why they made this decision.
EDIT: Turns out its not true. No Shit, Sherlock.