Comment on PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world
cerevant@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Would you mind explaining the difference?
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Blocking the community just blocks those specific communities. Defederating would be blocking everything on lemmy.dbzer0.com.
potat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years 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 2 years ago
Defederating cuts off the whole instance. They just blocked those three piracy communities as far as I understand.