Removal of piracy communities - Lemmy.world
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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: - !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com] - !piracy@lemmy.ml [/c/piracy@lemmy.ml] - !steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com [/c/steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com] 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.
  • AAA@feddit.deEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    Are the admins of lemmy.world somehow responsible for what their members do, even if it´s not on their own instance?

    They are not responsible for what their users do, but for what is saved on their instance. And by any lemmy.world user interacting with content from a different instance, their lemmy.world will host a copy of that content. That’s how lemmy works.

    So if a lemmy.world user subscribes to a pirate sub, that whole subs content is now mirrored on lemmy.world.

    Not just related to piracy that’s a huge liability issue for admins.

    • 雨 月@feddit.deEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Oh boy, I didn´t know that. What´s the reason of doing it that way though? I mean, since I discovered lemmy, most if not all drama related to lemmy being a good platform came down to the fact that certain instances blocked certain other instances OR even to the question why an instance DIDN´T block another instace that had some right wing shit on it. Seems to me, having your instance simply copy over everything might be more of a liability at this point.

      • AAA@feddit.deEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Well I don’t know why it’s being done like this, but my informed guess would be:

        Resilience. If the content wouldn’t be copied, defederating/blocking an instance would mean that the content you created there (topics, comments, etc) would be lost to you. So if you wrote a nice comment, or saved a bunch of topics for later, and then your instance blocks the other instance… that would be gone for you. With the copy this doesn’t happen.

        Performance. Instead of having to deal with every user (from a different instance) individually, your instance only has to deal with other instances. With this updates between each other can be sent in larger chunks (and definitely with less network connections). Additional benefit: smaller instances don’t get knocked down by user-heavy instances when they host a popular community.

        Just guesses tho.

        All social media is a liability time bomb unfortunately. That’s why only the biggest players can afford it so far.

    • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      But piracy instances aren’t hosting the pirated content either. It’s hosted on seperate servers and it is only linked AFAIK.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I think the reasoning is stupid in this particular case. But there are good reasons to defederate from instances due to the content they allow in some cases.