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.
reddit mods aren’t financially or legally responsible for the content on reddit, the admins are.
You are absolutely able to go to a instance that didn’t block these 3 communities or start your own right now - just keep in mind, you’ll be on the hook if allow illegal content on it.
Oh I am on another instance that is not my concern, I am just stating my disappointment and confusion over this instance and why maybe I am not so happy with them being our mouthpiece.
But they aren’t. It’s the fediverse. The whole thing is joining or making platform instances that align to you.
It’s not a bad thing to leave lemmy.world. The fact you can leave or start your own is a feature.
They’re only your mouthpiece insofar as the importance you put on it. Why are you under the impression this is the most significant instance?
The claim of being the “front page” for one.
becoming the largest then cutting off others for a second.
Starting to seem a lot like the EEE (Embrace Extend Extinguish) we were warned about with threads, not exactly the same since lemmy.world isn’t a big-tech corpo but there are similarities, also it’s kind of ironic that this instance also hasn’t cut off threads like the others have.