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Removal of piracy communities (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by lwadmin to c/lemmyworld

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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.

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[–] Underwear 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which I think is a problem in the structure of lemmy. I can understand them banning c/piracy from being hosted on lemmy.world, but blocking access to other communities on other instances from all of their users is really an issue. As a user I shouldn't have to create a new account to be able to see something hosted on lemmy.ml, no matter what the admins of my home instance think about it.

I think it should be up to the community admin to find an instance that supports them, not both the community creator and every user that wants to see that content.

[–] Carighan 3 points 10 months ago

I think it should be up to the community admin to find an instance that supports them, not both the community creator and every user that wants to see that content.

What's a "community admin"? The server owner? It is up to them, that's the whole point of the fediverse, you as the admin decide what people can see on your server, but everyone can also be their own admin if they so desire.

[–] KrisND 1 points 10 months ago

Interesting, but how could that be done? A list of instances with a list of allowed community types?

It'd be easier to find okay instances that are okay with said topic.