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What happened to the main Piracy community (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by techgearwhips@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

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[–] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not sure that their monthly running budget would even cover a consultation with a lawyer. There's no reason that they should accept this risk. Just move to a different instance or host your own instead of causing drama.

[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It one guy financing it with donations and some volunteer admins. Seems very unlikely that federating with a piracy community could cause any legal problems, but if I personally owned the servers running Lemmy.world like ruud does I might be a little careful. My wife would kill me if I got arrested for hosting a Lemmy instance, man. Is it worth the risk?