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:
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.
Yea, I’m leaving. Not as a protest, I just want access to something without caring if devs like it or not.
All hail Piracy!
That’s the best part of lemmy. I have a username on the giganticinstance for general, one for jackin’ it, and one for piracy. I don’t see why everyone is so mad.
We already got split from all the reddit users, people don’t want to have to split further into loads of lemmy accounts and instances without good reason.
I don’t think this is a matter of whether they like it or not. They just don’t want to get sued and have massive legal fees.
Where we goin’?
To an instance where the communities aren’t banned I’m guessing
we sail to the source! dbzer0 is only an ocean away
Probably, but I check for alternatives.
Devs? I think you mean admins.
You’re right.
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FYI, in case it makes things more convenient for you - You don’t have to give up this account to create one elsewhere. The apps have nice support for multiple accounts.
Right, but at the same time I’m not looking into managing multiple accounts. If I will end up somewhat using both I might use this or just cross post from the second account.
Where are you going?
sh.it.works, sopuli.xyz, Lemmy.ca, Lemmy.dbzer0.com, etc, etc, etc