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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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Zatso@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

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.

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[–] tlit341569@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

time to migrate change instance shit.

[–] postmeridiem@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Pre-emptively hitting my last resort button

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You either die a hero...

[–] turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

lemmy.world has become reddit.

[–] grayhaze@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] whataboutshutup@discuss.online 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] N00dle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

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