[email protected] has also been blocked from lemmy.world.

edit:

Lemmy.world has released an official response.

  • samus12345
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I agree with that. It’s not the blocking that’s such an issue, it’s how they came to decide to do it. Definitely wasn’t handled well. I wonder if the (even more) downtime they’ve been having recently is a result of more people being pissed about this move piling on to the DDOS attacks?

        • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          I mentioned earlier or elsewhere on this thread that right now, the narrative that I’m aware of is as follows:

          Lemmy.world users: just vibing, doing their thing

          Concern troll: comes in with a freshly created account to pearl-clutch about scary illegal things

          Lemmy.world users: hahaha look at this loser downvotes them to oblivion, resumes vibing

          Lemmy.world Admins: Piracy?! OMG that’s ILLEGAL, thank goodness someone pointed this out to us

          If they had an existing stance on piracy, they should have been already enforcing it. Then it wouldn’t look like they were successfully spurred into action by a bad-faith actor.

          • samus12345
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            That narrative appears to be correct, although at the end I think it may have been more like “You know, now that this asshole mentions it, maybe we shouldn’t host stuff from these piracy communities as Lemmy’s largest instance. That might create problems for us down the road.”

            They definitely should have been more transparent about why they chose to do it at this particular time.

            • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              “You know, now that this asshole mentions it, maybe we shouldn’t host stuff from these piracy communities as Lemmy’s largest instance. That might create problems for us down the road.”

              I’m almost certain that’s what actually went down, but I’m explicitly referring to the issue of people’s perception.