• JJROKCZ
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    1319 months ago

    Wtf dbzero was a huge proponent of the fediverse and has been a part of the recent swell in users. I don’t agree with this decision at all

    • @cerevant
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      619 months ago

      Remember that lemmy.world has to keep a copy of whatever content appears in a federated community on their servers, making them legally liable for the content. At least they just blocked the community instead of defederating.

      • @Leroy
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        109 months ago

        At least they just blocked the community instead of defederating

        Would you mind explaining the difference?

        • @samus12345
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          239 months ago

          Blocking the community just blocks those specific communities. Defederating would be blocking everything on lemmy.dbzer0.com.

        • @[email protected]
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          159 months ago

          Basically they blocked the communities but not the instances they were hosted on, so people on lemmy.world can still interact with posts and comments made by people like me

        • @cerevant
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          59 months ago

          Defederating cuts off the whole instance. They just blocked those three piracy communities as far as I understand.

    • @Feathercrown
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      9 months ago

      I mean if you support illegally hosted material you can be forced to take down your website. As much as it sucks, piracy is illegal. Anyways, they haven’t defederated, just blocked that community.

      • @[email protected]
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        229 months ago

        In many jurisdictions what they’re doing there isn’t illegal at all. It is well understood that you do not post links out in the open.

        Downloading isn’t illegal, sharing is. At least outside of the US (and a few others)