I'm curious what is believed to be the "legal issues". From my understanding lemmy.world isn't hosting any of this content it is all on other (previously) federated sites.
I'm glad this finally got posted, but really believe that this should have been publicly brought up before action was taken, not as an after thought.
Admins, you are doing a great job and it's very reassuring that you are willing to grow with the community.
Would you like to see that site unfederated from all other lemmy instances?
As it was before the defederation, the communities were on other instances so, per my understanding (and apparently the opposite that the admins think) the liability was on those instances hosting the communities.