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Many people are here due to what the Reddit admins did. If the same issues with admins are experienced here, then people will need to look for a better alternative to Reddit than Lemmy.
What reddit did:
What lemmy.world did:
Can you really not see the difference?
“Here” should be the fediverse, not all in lemmy.world. Ask yourself why the lemmy.world volunteers should accept liability blindly? They are responsible for what goes on in their servers. If you want to make your own rules, literally go and start your own instance… I’m sure when it’s your name on the hook you’ll be fine with “anything goes” on your server.
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).
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...