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.
Would you like to see that site unfederated from all other lemmy instances?
As it was before the defederation, the communities were on other instances so, per my understanding (and apparently the opposite that the admins think) the liability was on those instances hosting the communities.
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I’m getting at the point that this content was never hosted on Lemmy.world. it was hosted on several lemmy sites (lemmy.ml, sh.itjust.works, and Dbzer0).
Currently, from lemmy.world admins point of view, it doesn’t matter if it’s a pirate instance that hosts that community or lemmy.ml or lemm.ee. they will defederate that community so you can’t access it here.
Edit: Changed it to that community
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I changed “it” to “that community”. Apologies for not being extremely clear.
Glad that’s all you wanted to comment about.
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