• @[email protected]
    11•9 months ago

    Did they not know that piracy was a community before this post? It often hits front page, and is one of the very active communities. Even Reddit still has a piracy community ffs. At least take some time and/or get some feedback from the users before you take some off the cuff rash decisions.

    • @TORFdot0English
      6•9 months ago

      Maybe they decided that they couldn’t maintain deniable plausibility of not knowing it existed with it being directly brought up in their support community

      These are individuals volunteering their time to host a community and they don’t have deep pockets so they have to shield themselves from liability. I don’t blame them from deleting content from piracy, drug use, or porn communities because they could be held liable for the content. Even if it’s within their rights and they are not technically liable, any lawsuit will bring these small Lemmy communities down immediately

    • @gsa32OPM
      -12•9 months ago

      LW admins proving as incompetent as Reddit admins. Let’s not forget they can barely keep the site up.

      • @macarthur_park
        13•9 months ago

        I get that you’re upset about the piracy community being blocked, but calling the lemmy.world admins incompetent is completely uncalled for. The site’s been hit with intermittent DDOS attacks, and since Lemmy is a fairly new platform there aren’t a lot of tools to mitigate these attacks. Hence the need for cloudflare.

        Being the biggest instance, lemmy.world gets to experience all the growing pains of scaling up Lemmy first. The lemmy.world admins have been on top of things and open about status updates throughout all this. They’ve even found solutions to issues in the Lemmy code and issued pull requests to implement them.. And they’re doing this as unpaid volunteers.