Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy.

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This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:

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.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

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Does removing mean defederate?

No. Every community is hosted by a server, just as every user account is. Removing a community is similar to banning a user.

So it just means that lemmy.world users can no longer see that specific community, right?

No, it means the community no longer functions and most posts to it aren't available on other servers either. You can view some remnants of it on other servers, but I'm not sure what will happen if you try to post to them.

No that's not correct because the community they banned was not on their instance.

All this does is prevent Lemmy.World users from using or seeing the community. Everyone else is unaffected.

I misunderstood which community was being discussed. You're correct.

  • A server banning a community it hosts effectively destroys that community
  • A server banning a community it does not host makes that server's users unable to interact with it

That's very similar to banning a user.