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.

    • joe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There are worse, imo.

      user @snake posted:

      Did you ever consider ceding ownership of the instance to an entity with greater legal capabilities?

      In the end, it will not make sense to try to keep this instance running if the owners are unable to provide adequate service to its users.

      and was banned for:

      reason: Go get your service somewhere else

      Definitely not a great look.

      • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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        Lemmy.world admins, I am truly asking you to please reflect on how bad this looks. It honestly makes you seem like you can’t handle criticism and if people get that vibe they will use it to absolutely fuck with you. I know from my own personal experience. I understand that you’re volunteers but this is a step in a very bad direction that will only serve to cause more issues.

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          1 year ago

          Agree.

          This decisions seems emotionally driven. That will not work on the internet.

          You created rules. Use your rules to make your decisions. Don’t use your emotions.

          It won’t only bring the site into disarray, it will bring you moderators and your emotional states into disarray.

          Make your rules as black and white as poasible. where grayness raises, create new rules.

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        1 year ago

        How fuckin childish.

        Are you paying anything for this service? No. It has costs to maintain while they’re shouldering that on their own and giving you this service for free.

        Get over yourself. The entire point of the fediverse is that anyone can host an instance. You can spin up a little free instance yourself and federate or defederate/block anything you see fit.

        Why don’t you? I’m gonna guess because you want a low effort, free service to get your scrolling fix. In which case, they’re right. Go to a different instance that suits your values more. If you want an instance that won’t defederate or block others unless absolutely necessary, go join Lemm.ee. They federate with basically everyone and don’t block hardly anything.

        And, Lemmy world is federated with them. So you won’t lose a single thing here if you move there.

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          1 year ago

          Is it really childish to quote what someone else said and question it? Seems like quite an overreaction on your behalf to be honest.