2y ago

PSA: the largest piracy community is blocked from lemmy.world

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The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.

If this is a problem for you, I'd suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn't block it (such as lemm.ee).

edit:

An official announcement has been made:

Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy

lemmy.dbzer0.com /c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm really not a fan of the lw admins just blocking communities. It's not the first time either. It's even worse than defederating, because there's no record of it.
I signed up to lw on its almost first day, but with some of these policies, and constant downtimes, looks like I'll be moving. It's a bummer I've created all the communities here before lw became so big.
- Just FYI but you can mod users on other instances to your communities on lemmy.world.
  
  Yes I know, I just wish they were more diversified. When I was starting, I wasn't expecting Lemmy to take off like this, so I didn't care much at the time. Now it sucks especially due to the server downtimes.

That's super lame and disappointing. Democracy my ass, the users didn't vote for this.

It seems to be unblocked? I can visit both those communities/instances via lemmy.world.
Yeah, found the announcement https://old.lemmy.world/post/6018317

I get it cuz corpos be sue happy lately but at least it shows the Federation's strength: simply having another account routes around the problem.
If this was reddit it'd be gone for good.
But here it's just a mild inconvenience.

Together with their recent removal of a community focused on shrooms, lemmy.world is starting to seem excessively puritanical for my tastes.
- same.
  I'm not a child. Stop treating me like it.
- Do you know where did that community move to?
  
  !shrooms@sh.itjust.works
- It’s a volunteer ran instance and the first rule is no illegal content.
  Go find a different instance if you’re so butthurt.
  
  stop taking law as moral fact
  
  !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com does not have illegal content
  
  I have. I would have replied from that account, but it hadn't federated this thread before I subscribed. Happy passive aggressiving, though

Super lame lemmy.world, I hope this decision can be reversed.

Me on sh.itjust.works still enjoying these posts 🥹
- Munches on popcorn while sitting in kbin
- Honestly I feel like transferring to shit.
  
  I tried signing up for shit but it gave me an error and I never got a verification email. Tried again and it said my email exists, so tried logging in but still invalid credentials 🫠
  Same thing happened with lemmy.tf this morning!
- lemmy.world as the largest instance on Lemmy is starting to look out for "problematic" behaviours, I guess
  
  It's free as in beer, not free as in freedom, apparently. ¯(ツ)/¯

I thought we escaped this bullshit here.

Well, lemmy.world has shown their hand. They don't seem to have any consistent defederaion or content policy other than "whatever they feel like."
Abandoning my lw account and switching to lemm.ee now.
- deleted by creator
- In the real world there's these people called "Lawyers" who will happily sue relatively small, cash poor platforms like lemmy.world out of existence. What would you like the admins to do? Are you coughing up legal fees for them?
  
  Discussion of illegal topics is legal in most of the world.
- lol abandon Lemmy world for an instance that specifically won’t defederate from openly Nazi instances.
  Lemmy.ee is still federated with exploding-heads and the skinheads instance.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding this, but there’s nothing stopping anyone from having logins in either place. Using Voyager, for instance, I can have multiple logins on multiple servers with the same app.
- It's annoying having to create logins on multiple instances. I always forget passwords and have to remember which servers i have accounts.
  For example i had an account on one of the "lemmy. something" instance, but they defederated from shit.justworks so i created an account there. I changed phone and i relogged in from shitjjustworks but forgot what was my other login. And now do i have to create a new one to access the piracy one?
  I wish there was one Lenny instance i could create an access and have access to the entirety of lemmy, without having to bother
  
  I always forget passwords
  Use a password manager! it takes me literally less than 30 seconds to generate a password (and username if you want) make a new account and save the password
  I'd rec BitWarden
  The workflow is so much better than relying on your own passwords
  I wish there was one Lenny instance i could create an access and have access to the entirety of lemmy, without having to bother
  That's most of them honestly. lemm.ee doesn't really block anyone for example. The only major instance that blocks sh.itjust.works is beehaw.org, but they block a significant amount of instances.
  
  First off, you should be using a password manager. This is probably a good opportunity to get into the habit.
  I wish there was one Lenny instance i could create an access and have access to the entirety of lemmy, without having to bother
  Any small instance will probably never be defederated by anybody else unless they're focused on something controversial.

I mean its not their fault for trying to be proactive with this site gaining so much online traction. People are complaining, but they posted the named instances!!!!! They know its bullshit but they were like hey just go here and make a new account! It wouldve been different if they done this quietly.

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