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Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:

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.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

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[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

When "reddit outside of reddit" does reddit things 🫨

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, Rudd is just a hobbyist who runs .world in his spare time. If he’s getting legal pressure, he’s probably going to cover his ass. He’s not a company with a legal dept. He’s a guy with a family and a day job.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Another problem is .world part of US-centric instance

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When the people using a free service you're not obligated to provide try and shame you for not taking on multimillion dollar legal departments.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The communities they banned are only for the discussion of piracy(whick is legal). There are no copyrighted material hosted in any of them.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter if they're blessed by the Pope himself. The people who run the instance get to decide what moves through it.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Yes, and I can voice my dissatisfaction with it. I'm not sure what your point is other than trying to tell me to shut up in a more verbose way.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The benefit is that it isn't just another reddit but rather network of reddits

Banned on one? Get from another.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I'm referring specifically to lemmy.world, not to all of lemmy or even the fediverse.