I mean if you support illegally hosted material you can be forced to take down the website. As much as it sucks, piracy is illegal. Anyways, they haven’t defederated, just blocked that community.
Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wtf dbzero was a huge proponent of the fediverse and has been a part of the recent swell in users. I don’t agree with this decision at all
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
In many jurisdictions what they’re doing there isn’t illegal at all. It is well understood that you do not post links out in the open.
Downloading isn’t illegal, sharing is. At least outside of the US (and a few others)
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Only here because of my instance.
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Remember that lemmy.world has to keep a copy of whatever content appears in a federated community on their servers, making them legally liable for the content. At least they just blocked the community instead of defederating.
Leroy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would you mind explaining the difference?
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blocking the community just blocks those specific communities. Defederating would be blocking everything on lemmy.dbzer0.com.
potat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Basically they blocked the communities but not the instances they were hosted on, so people on lemmy.world can still interact with posts and comments made by people like me
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Defederating cuts off the whole instance. They just blocked those three piracy communities as far as I understand.