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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.

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[–] Odo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lovely this happened because someone complained after being banned from the piracy instance for being a transphobic asshole.

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[–] Zatore@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly fuck off. I came to Lemmy because I'm sick of people telling me what I can view and how I can view it. Guess I'll go find another instance again.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can view whatever you want anytime you want and your don't need kemmy.world's permission to do it. This is the point of the fediverse.

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[–] TheObserver@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aight peace ✌️ you do you. Gonna go sail my ship over to another instance.

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[–] Kuro@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Time to switch instances

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

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The copyblight strikes again.

This decision was the logical one, however, it was only rendered logical because of the awful state of copyright law.

[–] derf82@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The people whining are not the people that could face multimillion-dollar lawsuits over the issue. Like it or not, media companies are powerful and will go after websites seen as promoting piracy. Do what you reasonably have to do.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why people are upset even a little about this. This is a prefect advert for the fediverse. If you are not completely happy with an instance(which can never realistically happen) then you just host your own or have multiple accounts. Apps have this built in and easily accessible. Why do people want to concentrate everything they want into one instance? What if that instance goes down? This should not be hated or applauded.... just ignored as the way the fediverse should work. Don't get too attached to any single instance.

[–] BadAdvice@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

You guys shit the bed. Shiess the bed. Whatever you sourkraut fuckers want to call it. It would have been easier to set yourselves on fire in a bunker. Fascism is as fascism does. Tell us "it's for the greater good". You're just cutting away the undesirables. You admins do so much for our own good and we should be grateful you know so much better than we do. That's why you have all those updoots

[–] diffuselight@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I’m guessing the idea here is to eventually sell out to a corporate operator

[–] nick@midwest.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

Coward shit.

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