lwadminAug 15, 2023

Removal of piracy communities

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

Removal of piracy communities - Lemmy.World

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: - [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] - [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] 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.

Show threadJacktheladAug 15, 2023

And still people are crying about this.

You can literally change to another instance. That’s the entire point of the Fediverse. If you don’t like a decision the admin has taken, you can move elsewhere.

The entitlement of some people these days is ridiculous.

Show threadMaximilianKohlerAug 16, 2023

It seems like it would be difficult to keep track of all the instances that have/haven’t banned the communities/instances you’re interested in.

Like if someone wanted to move to an instance that hasn’t banned these piracy communities, how would they even know where to look?

Show threadchic_luke

You get it. This is why Reddit isn’t going anywhere and people are just downloading the official App or patching Infinity or Sync with ReVanced Manager. I’m an advanced user, FOSS advocate, die-hard Linux user and one that gets 90% of their mobile apps through F-Droid. I love the idea of the Fediverse, but I am struggling to use it for my own needs without all the defederation stuff getting in the way and becoming very hard to block. If someone like me is having problems, then it absolutely isn’t ready for prime time.

It reminds me of the Linux desktop back in 2017. It was promising and it was beginning to get more interest and traction, but still when you tried using it was eh. Almost there. But not quite there. There would always be something a touch too inconvenient. So you would eventually image your laptop back to Windows and go with it, while knowing in the back of your mind you shouldn’t, but you want to actually get stuff done and play your games. Linux has matured way past this point and it can now act as a main system no problem and be a reliable performer with a scope that covers 90% of use cases well, the dream was achieved. I hope the Fediverse will follow a similar curve with time, but after months of trying the Fediverse out a way or another it still can’t stop reminding me of that older stage of Linux.

Aug 16, 2023 at 5:43amWeb
Show threadMaximilianKohlerAug 20, 2023

It’s true that I’m also struggling to use the fediverse for my own needs, and opted to move my communities to a forum instead. But for this issue, I found this:

Awesome Lemmy Instances has a list where you can see how many instances block/are blocked by each other github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

GitHub - maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances: Comparison of different Lemmy Instances

Comparison of different Lemmy Instances. Contribute to maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances development by creating an account on GitHub.

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