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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Dbzer0
Obviously.
And it’s not necessarily corporate. Lemmy.world has been a target and it’s just a bunch of volunteers.
I get their desire to minimise their exposure to various attack including legal.
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Mander.xyz is stem focused and is against nanny-actions.
They let you pick what is acceptable for you.
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Dropping lemmy.world faster than I dropped reddit.
This isn’t an airport, no need to announce your departure
This isn’t silly-putty-pressing of a newspaper comic no need to spread other people’s jokes.
I’m always astonished by the capacity of people, dating as far back as fucking USENET, to delude themselves into thinking that people are so fascinated by their online movements that they have to announce each and every one of them.
Look for instances hosted in shader countries with more lax laws regarding copyright infringement and user privacy.