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.

  • Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
    0·
    2 months ago

    My biggest complaint about lemmy is the lack of content and censorship.

    The only meaningful lemmy is dbz0.

    If i want to read about cybersec, darknet, drugs etc. Reddit has far more content and far more discussion with less censorship – which is insane because they just about create everything now.

  • Professional Dramatard@seal.cafe
    0·
    2 years ago

    Wow, a lot of angry people in the thread.

    I unironically support your decision admins. Piracy is illegal and therefore unethical. There is nothing wrong with blocking piracy communities and people don’t understand the legal ramifications of allowing illegal piracy communities.

    Wish you luck, chadmins! 😘

  • WolfyGamer29@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Y’all realize that saying things like “You’ve just lost a user!” or “Deleting my account!” or “This is now the worst instance on Lemmy!”… you sound like a Karen telling the kid at the register in CVS that she’s leaving a bad Yelp review… right? Y’all seeing this? Am I going crazy here?

  • craktok@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Wow. It’s amazing the replies here. If you want to steal other peoples work, then go elsewhere. No one owes you the right to steal other peoples content.

    • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
      0·
      2 years ago

      Between Beehaw and LemmyWorld, I’m on my third account at this point. What starts as an alt quickly becomes the main under the right circumstances. 😂

        • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
          0·
          2 years ago

          I wish I could find the post/comment from a small instance admin that said it quickly became a nightmare trying to moderate without a team, and people were filling their drive storage with white noise files and crap, needing to be purged twice. I believe they even mentioned they were shutting down the instance and it being a cautionary tale of why not to join a smaller instance.

          EDIT: waveform.social

      • Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        You can solve your “problem” by running your own instance and federate with whoever you want

        • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
          0·
          2 years ago

          Thats actually what I‘m gonna do at some point. Your instance needs to be exposed, right? No chance it would work behind a firewall without a tunnel?

          • Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            2 years ago

            If you want to federate, then yes. Your instance needs to accept the activity pub messages sent by the instances you federate with. You would also need to send out the apub notices whenever you do activity on your instances

            • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
              0·
              2 years ago

              That makes total sense. I guess it was wishful thinking on my side. So I‘ll need to wait until I‘m ready to get a vps then. Thanks for elaborating. :)

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      From the modlog

      Banned @[email protected]
      reason: Let us help you

      That is petty and thin-skinned af lmao

      EDIT 1: Account has been unbanned sitewide

      EDIT 2: Banned from [email protected] instead, for “trolling” \_(ツ)_/¯

      At least there is a public modlog for accountability on Lemmy

      • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        At least there is a public modlog for accountability on Lemmy

        This is one of the features I like in Lemmy so far. Accountability for actions.

  • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    1 year 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.

  • kn98@feddit.nl
    0·
    1 year 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.