Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year agoRemember 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.