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.

  • dtc
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    511 months ago

    Haha I’m not deleting anything I have hosted here, just making a new account on another instance.

    • @Cabrio@lemmy.world
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      511 months ago

      Which moves your future server costs to that instance… Do you practice being this stupid or does it come naturally?

      • dtc
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        311 months ago

        Wow, you’re so nice! I bet you get invited to all the parties 🥳

        • @Cabrio@lemmy.world
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          211 months ago

          Did you just necro two 4 day old comments? You should see if bozo is taken for a username. 🤡

          • dtc
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            311 months ago

            Lol are you going through my comments? I feel so violated 🤷‍♂️

            Yea sometimes when I learn new information I delete my hot takes. I understand why that triggers you.