Removal of piracy communities
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.
Y'all realize that saying things like "You've just lost a user!" or "Deleting my account!" or "This is now the worst instance on Lemmy!"... you sound like a Karen telling the kid at the register in CVS that she's leaving a bad Yelp review... right? Y'all seeing this? Am I going crazy here?
Plus this is the Fediverse. They're effectively just saying "yo, I'm gonna reduce your server costs!". Oh no! What a horrible threat!
Haha I'm not deleting anything I have hosted here, just making a new account on another instance.
Which moves your future server costs to that instance... Do you practice being this stupid or does it come naturally?
Wow, you're so nice! I bet you get invited to all the parties 🥳
Did you just necro two 4 day old comments? You should see if bozo is taken for a username. 🤡
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.
No, you replied to me dumbass. 🤡
Stay triggered ;]
Stay stupid. 🤡
Such a way with words. Oh, to be a poet.
Yeah, it's a shame that simple things are beyond your ability.
Yea man, real shame.
oh no, how dare users voice their opinions
I dont think youre going crazy, but this is also what lots of people on reddit felt about the users moving to Lemmy. Different people have different priorities, and there arent really a ton of ways to express displeasure with the admin decisions of your instance to say "I'm leaving and heres why" although some people are obviously being a bit hyperbolic.