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As stated in the title, I went to some posts and comments that I had bookmarked for some media that I was trying to download. This was on my lemmy.world account. Turns out they're gone. Doing some digging and found out this community was still up but wasn't visible on lemmy.world. what happend?

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Yeah they blocked it a few months ago. I don't remember the specifics, but it seemed like a new mod/admin came into play and didn't get the memo about Lemmy and trying to be more transparent and engaged with communities. Just poof

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

If that's the case, I'd say the new mod did get the memo about Lemmy, and about the fediverse at large, and actually understood the legal risks involved in hosting this community.

Federation works by receiving and locally storing content from remote instances, which means any instance based in the USA is going to assume some significant legal risks by not banning this community.

It's not that they're refusing to let people look through a window into another, remote host. It's that they're refusing to host and serve that content from their own website.

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