• Throwaway
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    962 years ago

    Well at least lemmy.world is starting to look more and more like shit. Can’t keep the servers up, keep defeding, absolute nonsense.

      • SteefLem
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        2 years ago

        Why tho. I can block a community myself if i dont want to see it. This does not make sense.

        • @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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          392 years ago

          They want to avoid lawsuit. Which are probably going to happen to dbzer0, I don’t know where they are hosted, but they might get in trouble once they reach a large userbase

        • poVoq
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          2 years ago

          Because community content is cached on other instances, so you can find all the content from these piracy communities under the lemmy.world domain as well and this is likely to be interpreted by law enforcement / a judge as hosting this content, which can get the server admins into legal trouble depending on the jurisdiction.

          • BrooklynMan
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            2 years ago

            IIRC, lemmy.world is hosted in the US, making them liable under US laws.

            edit: IR incorrectly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            • poVoq
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              152 years ago

              They are actually hosted in Finland, but some of the admins are US based and can thus also get into legal trouble. Not sure about the legal situation in Finland.

        • Dojan
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          102 years ago

          The server and owner are in Europe. Though the anti piracy laws here are tough. Honestly can’t blame them.

          There are other instances that don’t have this issue though.

        • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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          42 years ago

          It does. Defederating basically blocks all their communities and users for everyone on your instance. It’s a far bigger deal than blocking a community

          I still don’t agree with the decision, but it’s a matter of scale

    • @DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      Reddit 2.0

      Edit: I saw I got lot of downvotes and I realize my mistake: This is not Reddit 2.0 because not even reddit was stupid enough to block their r/piracy.

    • @SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net
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      2 years ago

      they are volunteers paying from their own wallets to keep this going. You aren’t entitled to anything on the fediverse. grow up.