If you're looking to avoid all "problematic" content, you better shut down the service right now.

Besides the downvoting, there is not much blind disagreement comments here, nor agreement ones. Definitely a comment section worth reading. Fair points of views on both sides.

I don’t think this was the right call. Don’t have it hosted on here, fine. But defederated? I don’t see how being federated would be an issue at all. Oh well guess i got to actively go seek them out now.

At this rate, you might as well as defederate from all instances. Cant be too careful.

time to migrate change instance shit.

lemmy.world has become reddit.

It's arguable, but that's what federation is about. No default instance, you pick those you want to participate in and agree with, and their admins have their choices too. It's neat.

What surprises me is that people think making a community specifically for illegal activity isn't a problem, and that they should only be called on their behaviour when a copyright holder notices them. There are plenty of places to go for piracy online, so what's the need to add a community for it here? Or are you people claiming a piracy community wasn't primarily intended for piracy?

Pre-emptively hitting my last resort button

You either die a hero...

The piracy communities don't allow linking to pirated content and have broken no rules. This was tyrannical.

I think you need to make rule 1 more specific or create a rule for this specific issue. When I read rule 1 it seems vague but I might have a bias.

Speaking of having a bias, I don't think the liability is that big of an issue but I also understand that it is your instance to do what you want.

Thank you for being transparent and understanding that you made a mistake in not engaging the community first.

Wonder if this has to do with Piracy instance being listed as the largest lemmy community a few days back. Guess it might attract the wrong kind of attention.