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These communities are not even hosted on lemmy.world, this is an absurdly overreacted response. There were no signs of any legal trouble and I can't understand how lemmy.world specifically would be the target of such legal action. If you want to host an instance, you should do everything in your power to allow discussions on any topic, while in necessary cases disallowing direct posting/linking of illegal content. Instead, you chose to block a community that has long been known to avoid having any trouble with the moderators.
I enjoyed helping this place grow and doing my part to discuss here but I disagree with this decision and I'm going to evaluate looking for a different home instance.
So are reddit mods, does not make this less slimy
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 arenβt. Itβs the fediverse. The whole thing is joining or making platform instances that align to you.
Itβs 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.
They probably won't if it's individual people, though they are donation funded so if they show their supporters that they don't care those supporters might stop financially supporting lemmy.world. So telling them they should just leave because you don't care or handing out petty bans like "let me help you" isn't going to inspire these people to continue contributing donations.
This website doesn't make a profit, but that's all the more reason there should be an effort to not make people hate them, because I don't know anyone who would enthusiastically donate to support people or an organization they hate.
Aww you didn't seem to like what I said did you, darling. I'm not planning on not saying things just because it bothers you, Stay mad, trolls π π³οΈββ§οΈ
This is incredibly reasonable and reflects the exactly appropriate amount of urgency and emotional reaction to this happening. ππ»