Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6018317

Hello World!

As we’ve all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn’t want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it’s time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it’s been a rough ride with everything, and we’d like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

❤️

Apollo2323,

Dbzer0 is one of the few I have seen making Lemmy better and better.

db0,
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Aww shucks :)

Fhek,

I’m curious what the takedown requests were citing, those communities don’t really host pirated material, they just share links and info.

brickfrog,

There weren’t any, it was just a troll account that asked admins at a bunch of different Lemmy instances to block anything related to piracy. Lemmy.world admins took the bait. Even in the original announcement they never mentioned anything about dealing with tons of takedown requests. In other words they were blocking piracy related content preemptively before any takedowns occurred.

It’s nice they walked back that decision but I’m still not going to create an account there.

p03locke,
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Lemmy.world has a bad habit of acting preemptively first and asking questions later.

CorrodedCranium,
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That’s nice of them to walk it back. Definitely not something you’d see Reddit do

Flatworm7591,
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Yeah, it was a nice surprise for sure. I’m glad to have the lemmy.world crowd back, plenty of booty for all.

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