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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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[–] Ivyy_LemmyW@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why Lemmy won't grow, a lot of instances are forcing their users to create another account on other instances, this was my third account due to the blocking of some instances like this...

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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] rodneyck@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit 2.0...already migrating off this censorship.

You can use LASIM app (Windows/Mac/Linux) to migrate your profile and settings to another instance. Highly recommend.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a prime example of why I suspect we'll see a lot more lemmy instances with a more narrow focus over time instead of just a few super lemmys. Its only keeping them indexed that will be a problem so that they can be found.

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is it a liability when the discussion happened outside of lemmy.world?

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[–] giantofthenorth@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah fuck off im out of here.

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[–] JBloodthorn@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Well that was a stupid thing to do.

[–] nickknack@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] quantum_mechanic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Oh well, there goes the removal of my monthly donation.

[–] Zatore@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly fuck off. I came to Lemmy because I'm sick of people telling me what I can view and how I can view it. Guess I'll go find another instance again.

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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I don't begrudge your decision. To me this comes down to a question of if you're willing to be on the hook for a multi million dollar lawsuit, even if you'd definitely win in the end. It's still an expensive process.

I sure as hell am not willing to do that, so I'm not going judge other people who aren't willing either. I wish more people would look at it from this perspective.

By design, this isn't Reddit. We didn't want to be at the whims of their bullshit CEO and corporation. Unfortunately, that's also exactly who can afford to have legal squabbles and not go bankrupt. This is just a natural consequence of having a community run space vs a corporate one.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're looking to avoid all "problematic" content, you better shut down the service right now.

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[–] Zatso@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Besides the downvoting, there is not much blind disagreement comments here, nor agreement ones. Definitely a comment section worth reading. Fair points of views on both sides.

[–] tlit341569@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

time to migrate change instance shit.

[–] turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

lemmy.world has become reddit.

[–] Elpinchepana@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

WTF. Time to go. See ya.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You either die a hero...

[–] grayhaze@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What surprises me is that people think making a community specifically for illegal activity isn't a problem, and that they should only be called on their behaviour when a copyright holder notices them. There are plenty of places to go for piracy online, so what's the need to add a community for it here? Or are you people claiming a piracy community wasn't primarily intended for piracy?

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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The piracy communities don't allow linking to pirated content and have broken no rules. This was tyrannical.

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[–] N00dle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Wonder if this has to do with Piracy instance being listed as the largest lemmy community a few days back. Guess it might attract the wrong kind of attention.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I don’t think this was the right call. Don’t have it hosted on here, fine. But defederated? I don’t see how being federated would be an issue at all. Oh well guess i got to actively go seek them out now.

At this rate, you might as well as defederate from all instances. Cant be too careful.

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