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This community got removed from lemmy.world (again) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is another post that alerted me of this.

https://lemmy.world/post/13287681

And here is the modlog:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

The speed that this happened suggests they might have gotten spooked by something. Put down the pitchforks mates and give them a chance to explain first.

EDIT: Welp, I expected an explanation by now...

EDIT2: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/16795373

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

They've just posted.

It's not a good explanation. The only thing that changed was their own minds.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't you guys have an admin chat group. Or at least you guys would have some way of keeping in touch since this has happened before.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We do, in fact. They never gave a heads-up, and none has responded until now. I found about this from this post

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well at least they honored their commitments /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

It's funny because someone on their team started banning people from that thread for disagreeing with their stance then when called out for it they quietly changed the instance bans for community bans, in an awesome display of pure pettiness one would normally see on Reddit.

When I described the previous removal as LW having a feud with dbzer0, that was why.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

To be fair they do say they "need to be" transparent, not that they were going to be :p

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

"Just a heads up for when we do this again: we know that it sucks, and we are doing it anyway."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

🤣

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

That's unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if they got some personally delivered letters from the legal department of a big media company, given that they blocked visibility to some magazines on other servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Per https://lemmy.world/post/13320356, they got a takedown notice and started going through everything with a fine toothed comb.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They got lawyered maybe.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I'm doubtful

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If there's anything they should be spooked by, it's the pitchforks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ill take a pitchfork in the guts any day if it keeps me away from being a debt slave to Disney for the rest of my life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

😞 🧑‍🌾