Removal of piracy communities
Removal of piracy communities
Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were:
We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world's users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.
This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.
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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Y'all realize that saying things like "You've just lost a user!" or "Deleting my account!" or "This is now the worst instance on Lemmy!"... you sound like a Karen telling the kid at the register in CVS that she's leaving a bad Yelp review... right? Y'all seeing this? Am I going crazy here?
Plus this is the Fediverse. They're effectively just saying "yo, I'm gonna reduce your server costs!". Oh no! What a horrible threat!
Haha I'm not deleting anything I have hosted here, just making a new account on another instance.
Which moves your future server costs to that instance... Do you practice being this stupid or does it come naturally?
Wow, you're so nice! I bet you get invited to all the parties 🥳
Did you just necro two 4 day old comments? You should see if bozo is taken for a username. 🤡
oh no, how dare users voice their opinions
Yes. You are going crazy.
Your comparison with Karen and CVS fails on numerous accounts and lemme spell them out for you.
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CVS is an established megacorporation. A bunch of Karens saying that they wont get business from them anymore is meaningless to something that brings in billions of profit.
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Karens are not connected beyond vague occasional facebook groups and other types of groups.
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Lemmy.world is not established as the be-all and end-all of the fediverse. In fact, it's shown that it's badly managed in the sense that the site is non-functional more often than not. Various features just do not work here, show context as example, and the admins are more focused on the fallout over a troll post than working on the site.
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Users of this website are the only thing that lemmy.world has. Due to it's lack of stability on numerous counts, if there's a mass exodus of users it no longer becomes financially viable to keep the site running the way that it is or even at all. Due to the relatively small amount of users, a mass leaving incident so early in it's life cycle could kill the site.
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Lemmy users are organized on the very site that they are leaving. Comments can be left to point out why the person is leaving. This isn't being screamed at a single cashier, this would be visible to numerous people in the product they're using.
CVS is an established megacorporation. A bunch of Karens saying that they wont get business from them anymore is meaningless to something that brings in billions of profit.
Lemmy.world is a similar situation for the opposite reason. It's a free service that does not make money. A bunch of users saying they won't use it anymore is meaningless because they cost Lemmy.world money every time they use it.
If nobody uses the platform then there is no reason for it to exist. The fewer people who use it, the less functional it is as a social medium. Pretty obvious shit.
If every single user of Lemmy.world, or even a significant majority, leaves because they're no longer able to discuss piracy, I'll fight both Zuck and Musk in a cage match. It's all hot air from a very vocal, overly entitled minority.
If every person left Lemmy.world @rudd and the admins could take on another free hobby that they don’t get paid to do like bowling or birdwatching. He also has a calkey server and guessing he doesn’t cry every night because there aren’t 10,000 users.
But Lemmy.world isn't the whole platform, it's just an instance of it. You're right if the people are saying "I'm leaving Lemmy forever!", but most are saying they're simply moving to other instances.
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I dont think youre going crazy, but this is also what lots of people on reddit felt about the users moving to Lemmy. Different people have different priorities, and there arent really a ton of ways to express displeasure with the admin decisions of your instance to say "I'm leaving and heres why" although some people are obviously being a bit hyperbolic.