This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:
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.
Lemmy.world sucks donkey balls and this isn’t the only example.
Reddit 2.0. Always has been.
Thanks for pointing it out. Time to stop using my Lemmy world account. Bye-bye
Edit: or more likely just make another account and main it.
Seems quite reasonable to remove illegal communities given how Lemmy works with the caching of all content locally. There is just a significant legal risk for the instance operators involved here.
Piracy is not breaking the law. Fuck capitalism!
Let me know when you get your piracy instance set up, and where it is and whether I can go there and do whatever I want on it
If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.
Merely discussing piracy is not a crime. And that’s all that happens in that community
Considering how powerful is the copyright mafia (Remember that the pirate bay founder got jail-time) I totally understand why the people running the instance are doing so. I get why user are pissed off, but they’re free to host their own instance and deal by themselves with the legal liability
Lemmy.world is designed for people who want another Reddit. Interacting with their users & communities tells you all you need to know. I’d be a fan of defederating, tbh
What are the design features of lemmy.world that make it stand out here?
The instance beef is annoying to me, but i’m not here for the politics talk, maybe that’s why i don’t get it. I see pleasant and unpleasant users coming from all kinds of instances.
Not a suprise .world is like the most liberal instance I come across,
I can see why they would do this if their servers are in the US, Japan, Germany or another country with insane copyright laws. If not this move is stupid, almost as stupid as hosting your server in one of those countries.
Neither the server or community host copyrighted content. You can’t even directly link to sources for it either per the community and server rules. All the community does is discuss piracy which isn’t illegal
Another lemmy.world L, don’t know why anyone bothers with that shitshow.
