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.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
    148·
    1 year ago

    What reddit did:

    • Charged money to people who were adding value to their platform
    • Lied
    • Refused to improve their platform and blocked others from improving it for them
    • Supported child pornography until they got in trouble for it
    • Probably more that I can’t think of right now

    What lemmy.world did:

    • Didn’t want to host piracy content

    Can you really not see the difference?

    • Belkor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      1 year ago

      Why make assumptions for other people? Everyone have their own reasons for leaving Reddit. I left Reddit due to their admins displaying elements of authoritarian behavior and will leave Lemmy for the same reason. The search for a better alternative to Reddit continues.

      • Piers@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        Tell me who “the admins” of Lemmy are. Because they sure as fuck aren’t the same people as the admins of lemmy.world (in no small part because the admins of lemmy.world are an actual group of people who exist rather than the figment of a confused imagination.)

        Saying “the admins of Lemmy are displaying elements of authoritarian behaviour!” is exactly as meaningful and appropriate a statement about the current situation as saying “the admins of The Internet are displaying elements of authoritarian behaviour!”

        Maybe you should make sure you know what the fuck Lemmy and Lemmy.World are before you try to have an option about them…

      • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        1 year ago

        You should set up your own instance (of Lemmy or whatever else you choose). You can run it with no authoritarian behavior, as you like, and invite all the people from this thread to come along.

        Edit: Also, when you do set it up, let me know where. I’d like to go there, create an account, tell you how you need to run it, and passive-aggressively threaten to leave if you don’t do what I say. 😃