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.
Say what you want but Reddit is still hosting these communities so Reddit is currently better than Lemmy in this regard. I will continue to look for a better alternative to Reddit due to the authoritative behavior of their admins.
That’s one thing that is constantly overlooked, Reddit IS and will remain “better” in this regard because they have commercial backing and revenue to hire lawyers and put up legal fights. “Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy” isn’t going to happen in the Fediverse because most instances don’t have the resources to start the fight, nevermind win it.
This isn’t a bug on Lemmy, it’s a feature. It’s exactly why we’re here. A robust legal team requires a lot of money, and only corporate suits can finance that. If you don’t want someone like Reddit controlling everything and want a community focused space, you have to accept piracy isn’t going to be there.
If you don’t like that, you’re more than welcome to try and take on their legal liability so they can keep the piracy up (if that’s even possible).
“If you don’t like that, you’re more than welcome to try and take on their legal liability so they can keep the piracy up (if that’s even possible).”
Or I can just return to Reddit until I find a better alternative to Reddit.
Why not just hang out on the Lemmy instances that actively support piracy?
That is your prerogative.
The fuck are you talking about? Lemmy.world has defederated from other Lemmy communities that are about piracy. Those Lemmy communities that are about piracy still exist and are part of Lemmy.
Are you entirely certain you understand what the difference is between Lemmy and Lemmy.World?
It’s a bit like the difference between the United States and San Fransisco if that helps at all…