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It's gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (4 children)

lemmy.world deleted their copy of it (due to site rules, and prompted by a concerned Internet citizen)

It's probably the biggest Community in all of Lemmy, so the ramifications will be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (10 children)

lemmy.world has been acting very weird lately. Almost like they are the one and the only authority of Lemmy.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost like LW admins don't want to end up in jail.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I moved to lemm.ee from lemmy.world after that whole hack thing a few weeks ago and it seems like lemmy.world has been going through some weird shit ever sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We knew it was you!

[–] techgearwhips 25 points 1 year ago

Yea… it’s time to boogie off this instance for a while before they turn into Reddit Jr.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's their instance, they are free to do as they wish to comply with their local regulations

[–] small44 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But when it's a centralized social media who do what they want in there playform you guys complains about it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally never complained about piracy being removed from Reddit, it makes sense from a legal perspective.

The advantage of Lemmy is that all of the other instances still have that community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Piracy subreddits still exist on Reddit. Lemmy.world admins are apparently blocking communities that even Reddit allows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit has lawyers that the Lemmy admins cannot afford.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you're assuming there was some legal issue that triggered this community blocking? Lemmy.world admins did not receive any legal notices prior to this action, it was just their kneejerk response to a troll from another instance. You can view it yourself, browse to the post via [email protected] or see it directly https://lemmy.world/post/3175920

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Hexbear drove them mad.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like PEOPLE are acting like they're the only authority of Lemmy.

The whole point of Lemmy is that unlike Reddit, you can give middle fingers akimbo to the server and still participate.

It's not that difficult to jump ship.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"middle fingers akimbo" has been appreciated

[–] cow 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am starting to get frustrated with lemmy.world. The downtime and stability was one thing but now they cloudf****ed it, the stability has not significantly improved and cloud flare can now see everything we do here. Once there is account migration I plan on self hosting an instance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It depends on what you want from migration. Lemmy-migrate can migrate your subs but not posts or comments.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'd mind less if their own instance wasn't so broken.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ye I think I need to start my own instance, That's the only way I can get away from bullshit like this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] techgearwhips 1 points 1 year ago

Nice. Thanks for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been on my own instance since I started using Lemmy a few months ago and it's amazing to just... do whatever I want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You know, I agree that this is definitely the beauty of Lemmy's federated nature but I'm somewhat perplexed by statements like "I can do whatever I want". I mean for sure, in theory you definitely can, but were really being held back before? I just personally have never actually run up against the limits of my freedoms online and being unable to do something I want to do. I'm probably just super vanilla and boring I suppose. I guess the recent shit with Reddit is an example where I really was constricted, by virtue of no longer having the choice of mobile app to access the website through, but then, I just jumped ship to Lemmy. I can imagine I might run in to a situation where the admins of the instance I signed up to block a community I liked, but it's very rare that this is a community that I care about and when it is, there's almost always another server around I can make an account for and sign up to all the same communities as before. I guess in typing this I'm seeing that the answer is that, with your own instance you won't have to keep hopping, but I guess I just so rarely get inconvenienced by admin decisions that it's never seemed worth the trouble.

If it's not too prying, can I ask what is it you want to, and in practice really would do, that running your own instance has now allowed you? Not just theoretical but, like a real existing capability that you've gained and make use of regularly? It's appealing to me from a theoretical basis and sometimes the theory and principle alone is enough, but the effort barrier hasn't seemed worth it for the theoretical gains alone.

[–] Sanctus 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That "concerned internet citizen" was a 10 hour old account whose only post was complaining about piracy. It was a troll out for some good ol manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, that's not true. They also had posts complaining about trans people existing and Star Trek fans being nerds. Still, it's admirable - in a way - the effect they had: I ask the lemmy.world admins for updates on fixing their technical issues, and get no reply. This guy makes one post, and they all leap into action.

[–] Sanctus 12 points 1 year ago

Its very sus. Even if he had a legal point. It was so out of the blue AND fucked up my feed. I enjoy piracy stuff

[–] merthyr1831 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

oh well better late than never to migrate i spose

~~EDIT: nvm looks like dbzer0 has like 0 moderation (users just uploading gore to random subs and other shit) so can't blame lemmy world admin from having to defed. Shame.~~

EDIT EDIT: oh its just anti piracy, i thought it was a defed !

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

lemmy.world hasn't defedered from lemmy.dbzer0.com entirely, they've just blocked the piracy community.

[–] Cybermass 12 points 1 year ago

Such is the beauty of lemmy

[–] Jordan117 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deleted how? I can see it here while logged in (though there are only a few posts):

https://lemmy.world/c/piracy

[–] Madbrad200 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's not a copy of the main piracy community, that's another piracy community that's hosted on lemmy.world

The community people are talking about is [email protected], which is no longer accessible via lemmy.world

It appears [email protected] is also blocked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not that one, their copy of the massive one at dbzer0