Piracy related communities removal

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DABDA@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨support@lemmy.world⁩

I don’t know the specifics behind why the communities were (re-)removed but the reasons given in the modlog seem vague enough to apply to anyone linking to Google or YouTube as they reference or indirectly link to piracy:

Removed Community CrackWatch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
reason: facilitating piracy, referencing websites used for the distribution of copyright infringing material in images

Removed Community Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
reason: facilitating piracy, indirectly linking to websites used for the distribution of copyright infringing material

From the initial removal announcement post:

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.

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nickknack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
that’s crazy considering they said it wouldn’t happen again, at least without community feedback. off to another instance i guess.

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- fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah. They’re liars.
  
  Everyone should jump ship sooner rather than later.
  
  There are clear bad actors on the admin team. There is no hope for lemmy.world.
  
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  - lorkano@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There are no ships, it’s not reddit. You download one app to sync your instances, and you fucking join few to have access to everything you own. Or you just create your own instance, grant access to everything and use it by yourself. Nobody lawyers will call you because they won’t even know
    
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- CharlesMangione@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  the link is dead. probably a coincidence.
  
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  - Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Works for me, here’s a screenshot:
    
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  - TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Works for me
    
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

EDIT: Probably should hold off on pitchforks and exit plans, it’s likely I’m misinterpreting the modlog and it wasn’t Lemmy.World that initiated the ban but the dbzer0 team that did.

lemmy.dbzer0.com has nothing to do with this. This was an action from the l.w admins. In the past @antik@lemmy.world was the one who argued to revers this decision, so 🤷‍♂️

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- DABDA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ugh, I just can’t win. I generally don’t like to edit out (but just append to) stuff I’ve written but I’m really sorry about besmirching you and your instance due to another user causing me to doubt my interpretation of the modlog. Going to remove all mentions of dbzer0.
  
  Sorry.
  
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PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ok deleting my lemmy.world account just right when I found a reliable alternative.

Good luck!!

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- kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I moved to Lemm.ee when they removed these communities the last time and never got back lol, it seems like it has saved me huge headaches (also quick updates and no appreciable downtimes in my experience).
  
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- fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I moved to lemmy.ca in response to this nonsense.
  
  I’m sick of mod abuse and censorship.
  
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  - lorkano@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Why don’t you just create your own instance then?
    
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Zak@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Without taking any stance on what the rules should be, I’ll re-quote this for emphasis:

we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future

Instead, we have communities banned without a public post or opportunity for community members to engage with the admins making the decision. I joined lemmy.world before it was the biggest instance or anybody’s idea of the default because I was aware of mastodon.world and had the impression it was well-managed. I’m starting to lose that impression here, and I don’t like it.

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- fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It was good at first, but it’s clear corporate interests have infested the admin team.
  
  I don’t have any hope for it now and just encourage other people to move to different instances. I just moved to lemmy.ca in response to this.
  
  This is the glory of federation, after all. Don’t give abuse mods power!
  
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Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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solrize@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I didn’t notice it was gone. Most of what I remember from it was links to torrentfreak articles, which were completely above board. So yeah the silent removal is lame.

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- fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Everything about it was above board, but useful idiots don’t like acknowledging how they’re being taken advantage of.
  
  I see it all the time because it’s the norm.
  
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NOSin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sigh Lemmy has the opportunity to do something great, but no.

After sync being abusive with ad banner recently and now this, I’m just done, can’t be bothered keeping track of all the bullshit, which instance to go to, which app to use.

I’ll just read e-book on my free time now.

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ColdWater@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lemmy.ca is not just for Canadian anyone can join

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fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Awful decision, but I just moved to lemmy.ca because of it.

Censorship is a bad thing. Let users control what they want to see instead of corporate overlords and their useful idiots.

I encourage everyone to get off of lemmy.world as quickly as possible.

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- Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Problem is, with an instance as huge as LW, it has some moderation obligations in many countries that may have opened them to be litigated for multiple millions €, considering its size. It is more a question of survival, not because of some power-hungry admin.
  
  I can understand your point of view, but the TOS is clear about piracy and piracy discutions (see : legal.lemmy.world/tos/#41-piracy), and thus they are required to remove those communities if they break those terms (they are legally binding).
  
  Anyone who doesn’t want to comply with those TOS can, as you pointed out, move to another instance. It is one of the beauty of the Fediverse. In this case, the one who will be responsible in the case of a litigation is lemmy.ca, and not lemmy.world anymore.
  
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AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- fustigation769curtain@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Absolutely. It’s clear lemmy.world has been infiltrated by bad actors with an agenda.
  
  We cannot trust them. They are not here for us. All they do is serve their agenda, which in this case is looking out for corporations.
  
  I’ve also seen a ton of censorship surrounding Israel. People literally getting banned for comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
  
  It’s not looking good.
  
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Big oof.

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kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A nice tip for you fellow .world users, your instance has been updated recently and supports exporting, so you can create an account somewhere else ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Or you know… You can go back to reddit if you want those kinds of ~~meme~~ communities.

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Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s been an update.

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- mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  …and back to kbin I go.
  
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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Typical lemmy bullshit. Nice.

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despotic_machine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- DABDA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do you maybe have “Show Read Posts” unchecked in your settings and it’s just hidden?
  
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AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe take this to the instance admin? You’re on the wrong instance here.

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- wahming@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The ban was initiated by lemmy.world, how is this the wrong instance?
  
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  - AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Weird, they can ban other instances communities from showing up?
    
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- DABDA@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Shit, sorry for all the drama if this is just me misunderstanding the federation system. I wish there was more information provided in the modlog than just “admin”, like at least stating the origin server that took action. I just assumed since those communities had been “supported” (or at least tolerated) by db0 for so long they were on good terms and in communication with each other - didn’t even cross my mind.
  
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  - wahming@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, you’re not misunderstanding anything. The communities were banned by lemmy.world, specifically @MrKaplan@lemmy.world, one of the new mods. At a guess he probably took action on his own without realising the consequences.
    
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  - mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What? I can’t access it from lemmy.world. How would db0 have anything to do with that?
    
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cheerjoy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Over a month with no mod response, wow.

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