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.
lemmy.world doesn’t owe you anything, they don’t benefit from additional users, and they’re definitely not obligated to put themselves in legal jeopardy to keep you around.
If this isn’t a Redditor moment I don’t know what is
Haha yeah, maybe so. All I’m trying to say is, if there’s a community of people so childish that they’re going to oppose this announcement with this much vigor, then I’d rather they be opposing me, too.
Says the child.
The poster didn’t mention anything about LW owing us anything or if they’re obligated to users in any way.
I appreciate LW, and i understand their stance on piracy. But I’m also interested in how we regular users can easily find servers that are more flexible with their policies.