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.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
      93·
      11 months ago

      From the modlog

      Banned @soviettaters@lemmy.world
      reason: Let us help you

      That is petty and thin-skinned af lmao

      EDIT 1: Account has been unbanned sitewide

      EDIT 2: Banned from !lemmyworld@lemmy.world instead, for “trolling” \_(ツ)_/¯

      At least there is a public modlog for accountability on Lemmy

      • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
        23·
        11 months ago

        At least there is a public modlog for accountability on Lemmy

        This is one of the features I like in Lemmy so far. Accountability for actions.

    • SovietTaters@lemmy.basedcount.com
      32·
      11 months ago

      Here’s my new account. I found a random tiny instance and am chillin. I’d rather you not ban my new account (since I did nothing wrong) but bygones will be bygones.

    • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
      27·
      11 months ago

      Between Beehaw and LemmyWorld, I’m on my third account at this point. What starts as an alt quickly becomes the main under the right circumstances. 😂

      • Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        You can solve your “problem” by running your own instance and federate with whoever you want

        • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
          5·
          11 months ago

          Thats actually what I‘m gonna do at some point. Your instance needs to be exposed, right? No chance it would work behind a firewall without a tunnel?

          • Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            If you want to federate, then yes. Your instance needs to accept the activity pub messages sent by the instances you federate with. You would also need to send out the apub notices whenever you do activity on your instances

            • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
              4·
              11 months ago

              That makes total sense. I guess it was wishful thinking on my side. So I‘ll need to wait until I‘m ready to get a vps then. Thanks for elaborating. :)

        • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
          14·
          11 months ago

          I wish I could find the post/comment from a small instance admin that said it quickly became a nightmare trying to moderate without a team, and people were filling their drive storage with white noise files and crap, needing to be purged twice. I believe they even mentioned they were shutting down the instance and it being a cautionary tale of why not to join a smaller instance.

          EDIT: waveform.social

          • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            my instance is pretty cool, but i think it would be better for you to find an instance that’s tailored to your hobby/past time.

    • Mereo@lemmy.ca
      26·
      11 months ago

      Understand that Lemmy.world is run by volunteers. It is not a company. They don’t have the resources to fight legal battles. The Fediverse is big, feel free to migrate to another instance if you want to participate in that community.

      • elia169@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        But why would lemmy.world be the target of those supposed legal battles? These instances aren’t even hosted on lemmy.world.

        • Silverseren@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          Because of federation, all federated discussions that have participants from an instance save a local copy of that thread to the source instance the user is from.

          So any infringement on one instance will be an infringement on any instances participants came from.