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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] IZanderI@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Any suggestions on instances to move over to?

[-] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

lemm.ee for general use, dbzer,0 for mainly piracy (I chose this option myself)

[-] Jasontheguitarist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was going to join dbzer0 but their application wants me to talk about anarchy and shit. I don't know anything about all that, I just want to get to the piracy community.

Then I checked if dbzer0 was still accessible from Beehaw, and it is, so I just subscribed from there.

[-] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Nah, you can just write whatever makes even a tiny bit of sense. It's just protection against bots

[-] Jasontheguitarist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh. Thanks. I'll try signing up again. I imagine a lot of folks are sailing over there right about now.

[-] applejacks@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

lmao you have to "apply"?

[-] CaptainEffort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.ca users have been saying that anyone’s welcome, regardless of where they’re from. Sopuli.xyz is really solid too, and also welcomes everyone.

I’m on sh.it just.works and have enjoyed it a lot. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter a whole lot though, you can still join all the communities you did before. So which instance you choose isn’t a massive deal.

[-] Underwear@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Until the instance you choose blocks access to communities you enjoyed and it all starts over again.

[-] CaptainEffort@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So what? Do people really care that much about Lemmy’s karma points? Making an account on a different instance is pretty much a non issue.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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