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Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world (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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[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you don't need the advanced features of photoshop, paint.net is a good lightweight and free alternative. It has all the basic layer-based editing features.

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Krita and photogimp also come pretty close :)

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Photogimp? Is that like gimp for bitmap content?

[–] Qvest@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a GIMP patch. OSS and all. You can find it here: https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Nicee, will check that out when i'm next on my computer 👌

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My eternal wish has been for Paintnet to be on Linux. Pinta is pretty good but Paintnet is actually good.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe one day GIMP 3 will come out

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I unironically love your reply, because there are like 20 ways it can be read and replied to. That's a good one.

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What I like about Photoshop is how much the program works for me. I had been using gimp before, but everything is done so manually. Photoshop does a good job detecting objects, and the quick select tool is so convenient. I will check out paint.net, but I like having software that does not require Internet as well.