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Admins are also banning everyone for saying they’re leaving
What surprises me is that people think making a community specifically for illegal activity isn’t a problem, and that they should only be called on their behaviour when a copyright holder notices them. There are plenty of places to go for piracy online, so what’s the need to add a community for it here? Or are you people claiming a piracy community wasn’t primarily intended for piracy?
https://lemmy.world/comment/2426956
Time to host my own instance. I disagree with this move.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2429393
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.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2426973
Oh no. Wtf. Do you know what’s funny? I actually joined this instance from piracy subreddit.
I guess it’s time to leave.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2425186
I don’t think this was the right call. Don’t have it hosted on here, fine. But defederated? I don’t see how being federated would be an issue at all. Oh well guess i got to actively go seek them out now.
At this rate, you might as well as defederate from all instances. Cant be too careful.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2427348
Bootlicker [-8]
https://lemmy.world/comment/2427940
These communities are not even hosted on lemmy.world, this is an absurdly overreacted response. There were no signs of any legal trouble and I can’t understand how lemmy.world specifically would be the target of such legal action. If you want to host an instance, you should do everything in your power to allow discussions on any topic, while in necessary cases disallowing direct posting/linking of illegal content. Instead, you chose to block a community that has long been known to avoid having any trouble with the moderators.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421890
Doesn’t matter if they are hosted here or not. The way federation works is that threads on different instances are cached locally.
We have NO issues with the people at db0 - we are just looking out for ourselves in a ‘better safe than sorry’ fashion while we find out more. As mentioned in the OP we would like to unblock as soon as we know we can not get in any legal trouble. [chadmins]
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421890
What the absolute hell? What makes this place so good is that there’s not people making idiot decisions at the top. This is an idiot decision. Plus side of the fediverse is vanishing.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2424687
Uh, @[email protected] … what’s up with the banning going on in this thread? I noticed on a.lemmy.org that someone was labeled “banned” and their comment was simply “Ight, I’m out”
The mod note was “Let us help you”.
There are more similarly weak (spiteful?) bans that certainly don’t seem to be at a standard for a ban. “Litterally 1984” was another one. Is that all it takes to be banned here?
Edit: Many (all?) the users I referenced as banned are now unbanned from the site, but now banned from this community. :marseyban:
https://lemmy.world/comment/2422473
Please make announcements on lemmy instead of exclusively on discord moving forward. That is the biggest issue here, the lack of public transparency. Such a decision affects all instances, not just lemmy.world and making it publicly known is important
This was a misunderstanding from one of the team members. It has since been discussed and will not happen again. Lemmy.World and this announcement community is our primary platform, [chadmin]
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421280
And once again we have people thinking that the instance owners would have to discuss everything they want to do with them and get the approval of everyone. It’s already great that they’re making announcements instead of doing it silently until people notice on their own. Plus, it’s not hard to make an account elsewhere if you don’t like it here. I doubt you’re restricted to this single instance.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2424187
Ight, I’m out
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421940
Surely there is a discussion to be had around what is and isn’t allowed, there are plenty of subreddits discussing piracy without dolirect links that are playing within the rules.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2420730
fucking hell, its time to leave lemmy.world, you are no better than reddit :marseysnoo:
Says the redditor
https://lemmy.world/comment/2422227
What is the legal theory being used here?
People chatting about piracy is now a crime in US? I thought the crime was uploading or downloading copyrighted content…
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421667
Lovely this happened because someone complained after being banned from the piracy instance for being a transphobic asshole. :marseytransplushie3:
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421151
Yea, I’m leaving. Not as a protest, I just want access to something without caring if devs like it or not.
All hail Piracy!
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421558
Well said! I think the entire LW community would prefer a heads up for major actions. It’s understandable that piracy could lead to liability issues which none of us want. Thanks for giving us a run down.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2420912
Is it a liability when the discussion happened outside of lemmy.world?
https://lemmy.world/comment/2421575
Deleting lemmy now I guess as well [-3]
https://lemmy.world/comment/2424715
Wtf? I’m leaving.
Is there a way to migrate a community? [-3]
https://lemmy.world/comment/2428100
I’m sure this comment will receive plenty of hate, but I’m really struggling to understand why piracy seems to get so staunchly defended by seemingly everyone here. Piracy is stealing. It is morally wrong. We can argue all day about how it’s a ‘victimless crime’ or how media conglomerates are greedy and deserve it, but at the end of the day there’s nothing that makes it ‘right’. With maybe a few exceptions, no one needs the things they’re pirating and it’s just childish to refuse to pay for content and go on pretending it’s a necessity. What needs to happen is more money going to the creators whose content we all enjoy so much.
There’s plenty of places to go where you can still interact with these communities, and we shouldn’t be surprised that a large and general instance wants to be distant from them. Personally I applaud the decision. [-6]
https://lemmy.world/comment/2426834
Literally 1984 [-14]
I’ll probably be giving the contrarian opinion in this thread but I’m kind of disappointed in the average Lemmy user in this whole saga. It’s in every users rights to move instances if they don’t agree with the moderation, but good grief Lemmy is just as neurotic as any other terminally online community.
Voicing displeasure and moving accounts is one thing but calling the admins of Lemmy World cowards, or ruining freeze peach, or shits as big as spez just because they aren’t willing to put their neck on the line is ridiculous.
Yeah if I hosted my own instance I would do the same thing. Heck I won’t host my own single user instance because I don’t want a bad actor on one of my subbed communities to start posting CP, pirated content, or other illegal content that I could be held liable if my devices were ever seized. Not that I’m at risk of that happening but it’s a headache that isn’t worth my time if it has a .01% chance of happening.
It’s easy to be a critic when you don’t have skin in the game. That being said I’m glad that people are spreading out because that ultimately makes the fediverse stronger. I just want to know how many people that are criticizing the Lemmy world admins are going to run their own instances and federated with those communities
I have noticed in my time on Lemmy is a recurring theme of users calling out “Reddit-like behaviour” then those same users engaging in the most toxic discourse reminiscent of the worst of Reddit.