Hello World!

As we’ve all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn’t want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it’s time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it’s been a rough ride with everything, and we’d like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

❤️

  • MrSilkworm
    81•1 year ago

    Thank you for the very informative post. Your professional way of handling the issue, puts corporate professionals, “cough” Reddit “cough”, look like the amateurs they really are

    • Wrench Wizard
      27•1 year ago

      That’s what I thought while reading this. After being on reddit for so long posts like these are such a breathe of fresh air. In my time on Reddit the trend was ALWAYS 1: bad changes 2: worse change 3: nothing, it just becomes the new normal then, if anything 4: even worse changes.

      Blows my mind to see a site be cognizant of their users, listen to them and actually idk, work to fix things? Bravo.

      • Ann Archy
        11•1 year ago

        You forgot the random instant site-wide permabans without explanation or possibility for appeal.

        • Wrench Wizard
          4•1 year ago

          Wow, I had actually forgotten about those. Not to mention that every time I checked my inbox I was being blanket banned from a host of subs because I had accidentally commented to a no-no sub, or said something mildly controversial… I’m not even that controversial of a person haha but not fitting in perfectly and submitting to the echo chambers meant punishment… just so strange