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Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

Hello World!

As we've all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn't want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it's time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it's been a rough ride with everything, and we'd like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

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[–] Gamey@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmy mods have a horrible and unthankful job, they get flooded with CSAM we never have to see and I didn't experience any issues with mods so far, is it possible that the issue is related to the kind of stuff you post?

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does mods getting CSAM posts have to do with banning a piracy community?

And I do not see the relevance in your second question.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem to confuse mods and admins, the only thing mods do is run and and moderate specific communities to keep a nice environment people want to participate in. Admins on the other hand manage the instance and are vastly different for most instances (there are some with significant overlap like Lemmy.ml and Lemmingrad but that's usually not the case) and they are behind something like defederations. I didn't see many unjustified defederation and block attempts so far tho, Lemmy.world fucked up with the piracy communities and I did view their proactive defederation from Hexbear critical but now that I know what Hexbear really spreads around the Fediverse I actually switched instance just to get rid of them so I guess they where right on that one!

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the correction. Meant to mention instance admins.

I didn’t see many unjustified defederation

Because you'd never know about them if you are not looking for the banned communities.

now that I know what Hexbear really spreads around the Fediverse I actually switched instance just to get rid of them

You can block a community from your user panel. Which is why the community bans/deferations from admins is ridiculous.