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This community got removed from lemmy.world (again) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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This is another post that alerted me of this.

https://lemmy.world/post/13287681

And here is the modlog:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity

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[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 93 points 3 months ago

.world is just the worst parts of Reddit. Even fucking Reddit hasn't banned r/Piracy (yet)

[-] Jennykichu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 months ago

Most of the "communities" are just endless meme reposts like reddit,

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

It definitely has that Front Page feel. I straight up just blocked .world after they took a pro Meta stand.

[-] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why would Reddit ban it? It's an easy way for them to collect users' IP addresses for their corporate overlords.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The optics of a potentially publicly traded company (what ever happened with the Reddit IPO thing?) openly having a "how to steal other companies copyrighted work" forum is more of a negative than IP farming with no method to actually do anything useful with the IP addresses.

[-] Tak@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

I think Reddit would have to tackle the mountains of porn too for those optics.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Porn is less of a legal liability than copyright claims is my guess.

Also... like... if somebody is dumping money into Reddit as a user of Reddit, which is more likely to make them stop: killing the piracy forums or the porn forums?

[-] Tak@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's not about the legal liability and more that publically traded corporations only want profit. Reddit would need to cater to advertisers who would not like all the porn, it's why Tumblr and Imgur removed the porn.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Specifically, the executives and shareholders want their Publicly Traded Shares of company stock to be increasing in value. Advertisers are good for getting long term holders of the stock to keep holding and buying, but everybody else is looking to quietly pump up the numbers and sell what they can without upsetting the apple-cart.

I'd bet a shiny metal dollar that after the IPO starts, the porn subs will slowly start being winnowed down. Give it a few years and if any exist they will be private.