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Removal of piracy communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were:

We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world's users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.

This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Oh great Reddit 2.0

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'm just here so I can post the 1000th comment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Coward shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Boo. Fie and Shame upon your house.

Shame! Shame! Shame!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

good thing I followed the advice not to use lemmy.world lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which instance is recommended?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

not entirely sure, I'm still new here. I haven't had any problems with lemm.ee

there's probably a thread in [email protected] where people discuss the pros and cons of different instances

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thank you. I hope somebody can chime in and give me the instance to use.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Indeed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean this was why I left. Piracy discussion is my canary for the internet coal mine. If it dies I leave. You guys killed it so I left. It's your server and your business but the canary was dead so I got out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Pathetic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bwhahahahaha Reddit is more liberated than Lemmy, what a fucking embarrassment.

What's the line, self-censorship is the first sign an authoritarian has won.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just use a better instance than .world...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Looks like we finally found the part of lemmy.ml that this site is comfortable with blocking.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This sort for reminds me of a Sybil attack.

I think it’s a good idea for everyone to register at an obscure Lemmy instance. If everyone’s on lemmy.world, it isn’t truly federated.

Reddit allows piracy communities. These Lemmy communities aren’t hosted on your servers. That’s the whole thing - dbzer0.com and lemmy.ml are taking the risks, though there probably aren’t many risks in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Definitely think you should allow them again. Obviously not on your instance but restricting access to other instances is just not right. I do understand the concern though, I really hope in the end you realllow them.