This is another post that alerted me of this.
https://lemmy.world/post/13287681
And here is the modlog:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity
Just a quick update, lemmy.world has posted an update that explains their decision here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/16795373
TLDR is that the person who removed the community is fairly new to the mod team and didn’t realize there was a bit of a history to this situation. Also, looks like they are sticking with the decision this time around though.
Please don’t harass the lemmy.world admins/mods though - if you don’t like the situation you are free to register here or on another instance. And if you aren’t a lemmy.world user, then this doesn’t affect you at all.
I’m proud of our community here, and it’s their loss, not ours!
- updated the link
Lemmy world mods are a joke.
this sounds familiar.
and some of their admins (Im looking at you Antik)
The translation is, “It wasn’t us don’t get angry, but also it kind of was one of us and also we are sticking by the decision so it may as well have been us.” I don’t really see that it matters if the story is true - in the best possible case they’re just saying that they don’t have a way of setting policies and having those policies be followed.
If we’ve learned anything from centralised platforms it’s that size doesn’t protect platforms from the consequences of making bad decisions.
Guess who just created a second account 👍
Would be nice if there was a Firefox extension or something to ‘merge accounts’ as a workaround. Make things a little easier in situations like this.
there is Lemmy handshake which syncs your communities on mobile, but welcome to db
Oh that’s pretty neat, haven’t seen it! Thanks for the tip
I did the same. Fuck that noise.
Ooof, just moved instance.I see no reason to do this.
Another reason why I like Fediverse
If Lemmy.world would have full control over it, this community would just get banned, but there’s more and it is still accessable from all other places
Yeah, just like when reddit changed their rules to ban DNM.
Such a waste.
Well I guess that shows why I main kbin and not lemmy.world. Absolute dogshit decision from them.
I made a account last time lemmy.wold blocked this community. Seems like il be sticking with this account for now
.world is just the worst parts of Reddit. Even fucking Reddit hasn’t banned r/Piracy (yet)
It hasn’t banned it, but they turned it into a meme community, which can be worse than being banned.
Most of the “communities” are just endless meme reposts like reddit,
Why would Reddit ban it? It’s an easy way for them to collect users’ IP address for their corporate overlords.
Fair point
The optics of a potentially publicly traded company (what ever happened with the Reddit IPO thing?) openly having a “how to steal other companies copyrighted work” forum is more of a negative than IP farming with no method to actually do anything useful with the IP addresses.
I think Reddit would have to tackle the mountains of porn too for those optics.
Porn is less of a legal liability than copyright claims is my guess.
Also… like… if somebody is dumping money into Reddit as a user of Reddit, which is more likely to make them stop: killing the piracy forums or the porn forums?
It’s not about the legal liability and more that publically traded corporations only want profit. Reddit would need to cater to advertisers who would not like all the porn, it’s why Tumblr and Imgur removed the porn.
Specifically, the executives and shareholders want their Publicly Traded Shares of company stock to be increasing in value. Advertisers are good for getting long term holders of the stock to keep holding and buying, but everybody else is looking to quietly pump up the numbers and sell what they can without upsetting the apple-cart.
I’d bet a shiny metal dollar that after the IPO starts, the porn subs will slowly start being winnowed down. Give it a few years and if any exist they will be private.
Huh. I hadn’t thought about that. That’s not a bad point either.
Reddit IPO thing?
Planned for this week
It definitely has that Front Page feel. I straight up just blocked .world after they took a pro Meta stand.
The speed that this happened suggests they might have gotten spooked by something. Put down the pitchforks mates and give them a chance to explain first.
😞 🧑🌾
Wouldn’t be surprised if they got some personally delivered letters from the legal department of a big media company, given that they blocked visibility to some magazines on other servers.
Per https://lemmy.world/post/13320356, they got a takedown notice and started going through everything with a fine toothed comb.
Don’t you guys have an admin chat group. Or at least you guys would have some way of keeping in touch since this has happened before.
We do, in fact. They never gave a heads-up, and none has responded until now. I found about this from this post
That’s unfortunate.
Well at least they honored their commitments /s
To be fair they do say they “need to be” transparent, not that they were going to be :p
🤣
“Just a heads up for when we do this again: we know that it sucks, and we are doing it anyway.”
because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.
It’s funny because someone on their team started banning people from that thread for disagreeing with their stance then when called out for it they quietly changed the instance bans for community bans, in an awesome display of pure pettiness one would normally see on Reddit.
When I described the previous removal as LW having a feud with dbzer0, that was why.
They’ve just posted.
It’s not a good explanation. The only thing that changed was their own minds.
They got lawyered maybe.
I’m doubtful
If there’s anything they should be spooked by, it’s the pitchforks!
Ill take a pitchfork in the guts any day if it keeps me away from being a debt slave to Disney for the rest of my life.
average lemmy.world moment
being the biggest has it’s problems
its
of itself
Lemmy.world is the stupidest instance around
I don’t know, at least its not stuffed up to its assrim with Marxist filth.
Instead it’s filled with zionazi and anti-piracy filth.
I prefer my filth Marxist and materialist flavoured thank you very much.
I mean, I like my Marxist content to be good and not filth. Maybe that’s what he meant.
Well where the hell else are we supposed to store our Marxist filth?
only to the begging of the rim
Says lemm.ee user lmao
What’s wrong with lemm.ee?
Indeed. In my opinion, it’s called lemmy.world but it’s too US centric to have the .world domain.
classic US
Glowies
WTF is a glowie?
A paranoidal schizophrenic and a single dev of Temple OS thought thar he’s watched and messed with by federal agencies. He knew, because he could see a glowing aura around them undercover agents. After his ramblings about it, 4chan boards users who watched his streams as a lolcow (a person of interest who can be milked for lulz) took this slang term from him. Then it spread everywhere.
Down the Rabbit Hole episode about him and his slow sad demise: https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg?si=JlPs70O5gQCvau2z
The CIA got him in the end.
Ta.
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It refers to how obvious undercover agents can be in online forums. So obvious that they glow
Ta.
Sigh. At least the benefits of federation include being free to move into other instances while LW can pull stuff like this (probably because they get the heat from being the largest instance).
A disunited federation is still a federation.
AFAIK, lemmy.world cannot remove !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (but block this community or instance), because lemmy.world is another instance.
Pirates interested in this communities will find a way to lurk or participate.
A few of the bigger instances have been very open about the fact that they’re anti-piracy, anti-porn, etc and removing this community is par for the course with such a stance.
What does that mean for the average user? It means there’s more incentive to move to better instances. It’s when instances have such a monopoly on users and communities that people should not only move, but advocate for other people moving to smaller instances.
Also a major benefit of not being federated by large instances is that there’s less surface area for search engines and thus resources last longer.
Imo the issue here is that how Lemmy works right now, or maybe just its apps, seems to have the trend of pushing most people onto the largest instance(s) like .world
If the point of the Fediverse is to have a decentralized userbase, that trend needs to be reversed.
Even if we give .world admins the benefit of the doubt and say they got in legal trouble or something this time, having a userbase properly spread across many instances would prevent that instance from having the obvious target.
You’re not wrong. But people are lazy. They want to go where everyone is and have FOMO they’ll miss something good by not being on the biggest instance.
Instance checks out lol
hexbear alt
Would be a good time to finally leave .world behind. That instance is way too big
