I'm very conflicted about this. On one hand, it's kind of bullshit to take this level of action on something that can be handled on a case-by-case basis, when the need arises.

On the other hand, I'd prefer to see Lemmy avoid the reputation that Mastodon has garnered with the activities that are vastly under moderated there. With the size that some instances are reaching obviously there needs to be a level of discretion towards the content you will allow.

It's, however, a slippery slope from protecting the community to accepting bribes for exclusive access to your user base.

"Due to moral objections, we've decided to block this meme community. However here's an alternative that will show you advertisements disguised as funny memes! They even have most of the same content as the old one! Enjoy!"

Don't let that become reality.

Thanks mom, is there anything else you want to protect our poor little eyes from?

Awfully silly decision.

If you're going to ban piracy you should also ban all pro copyright communities and comments, it's only fair.

Yeeeep. I stopped using my LW account once you people simped to Facebook federation.

@lwadmin, you are probably not the first people trying to sort out an issue like this.

Can the hosting for lemmy.world be moved somewhere where privacy laws are stronger and be payed using privacy crypto like XMR?

Would probably secure lemmy.world from more then just the piracy lawsuits, other stuff as well.

Maybe Njalla?

https://njal.la/about/

Thank you for this update and your work!

It was sad to see the level of hostility displayed in some of the threads yesterday.

You are still doing a great job as the most public facing instance, and it's good to hear you noticed the request for more transparency.

Take care!