“Unremoval of Piracy Communities” https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

This post needs to be updated to reflect the current policy.

Six months later, a new Removal of piracy communities announcement confirmed that these communities had been removed. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which was the most popular piracy community, is still inaccessible to lemmy.world users. This is misleading: users see the old post, sign-up, and then find out they cannot access the community.

Please edit the original post to include the new removal announcement.

      • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
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        21 days ago

        People have had 2 years to switch to another instance. Lemmy.zip, used by OP, is nice.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          20 days ago

          Personally I think if LW wants to ban a certain kind of content, more power to them. But they should be transparent about it.

          If they’ve said they’ll unban pirate content, then pirate content should be allowed. If they want it banned, fine, but make a statement clarifying that that is the case.

          OP is doing good work by pointing this out.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I had no idea this was a thing. Interesting. I can see from liability why this is not something they dont want to touch, being a general purpose instance.

    I think lemmy/fediverse needs a place where if you try and subscribe to something blocked, you get a post/page explaining why they did the thing. Its going to confuse new users otherwise.

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.

      • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        20 days ago

        Considering the bullshit spewed by them to justify their ban of pro-Luigi comments, claiming they consulted a lawyer, I doubt this ever happened.

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          20 days ago

          Is it a known thing that they were dishonest about speaking to a lawyer with that situation?

          I’ve been meaning to change instances and find a new home, if it’s known that they lied or mislead their users thats something I’d love to know more about

            • Cris_Citrus@piefed.zipEnglish
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              11 days ago

              Thanks! Previously I had looked for a way to import settings and was unable to find it so that held me up, but I got all my comms imported so I’m gonna give piefed.zip a try as my new instance ☺️

              Username is slightly different now, it was probably time for it to change

              • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
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                11 days ago

                Oh great, welcome here! 😊 Glad you like it, feel free if you have any questions

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          20 days ago

          That wall of text could be summarized as “but what about the other guys” without addressing a single criticism.

        • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          20 days ago

          As nice as those anticommercial ideals are, I generally just see shills that enjoy downplaying Russia’s invasion and justifying Iran’s mass-murdering of protesters out of .ml. Some really, really bizarre cyberstalking weirdos too.

          Might be survivorship bias because only the assholes get noticed, but .ml has a pretty shitty reputation because of them.