As stated in the title, I went to some posts and comments that I had bookmarked for some media that I was trying to download. This was on my lemmy.world account. Turns out they’re gone. Doing some digging and found out this community was still up but wasn’t visible on lemmy.world. what happend?

    • whoareu@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      so you can defederate from a single community? or they have defederated from the entire instance?

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        5 months ago

        admins banned a community, not one but three. this one, piracy at .ml and another one at db0. it’s likely that lw admins defederated from entire instance too

        e: i think it happened in the past but now db0 is federated with lw

        • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Can confirm, it’s only the piracy communities that are blocked, and we are still otherwise federated with lw. It’s not really a big problem as far as we are concerned, they can pick and choose whatever communities suit their instance. We will have lost some clicks and visibility from them, but at the end of the day, it’s not going to affect our share price lol.

      • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        When you do not have much of a bank account and you could easily be starting at tens of thousands in legal fees, it’s pretty easy to be unable to find them.

  • fah_Q@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Lemmy world is the worst. Anytime I see a trash post that’s where it comes from 9/10.

      • DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org
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        5 months ago

        They are both bad for different reasons.

        Kbin has uncontrolled spam because the administrator, Ernest, likes to go AWOL for months on end and wants to do everything completely by himself. Currently, Kbin.social has been unreachable for 4-5 days - whether that’s because something legitimately broke or Ernest pulled the plug on things we don’t know because he actually hates communicating with people. He could gain so much more goodwill from the community if he just left a one sentence post saying “I am still alive, I am still updating things, be patient.”

        Lemmy World sucks because the admins suck, the moderators suck, and the majority of the userbase don’t seem to be interested in creating quality content. Most of the people there are only there because their Reddit app doesn’t work anymore.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I’m here because r/piracy lead me here :)
          My first account was actually made on lemmy.world until I saw mentions of this instance. Very grateful to db0!

          Let’s agree that it’s the “Both? Both!” meme.

    • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I originally joined up to .world and offered to mod a few communities, cause whatevs I got free time. I saw a fellow mod outright nazi-ing about ( not “saying things I disagree with” but actual nazi fanboy-ing) so asked instance admin if he could be removed as a mod from said community we shared. It was a polite message, and I wasn’t gonna harp or bitch about it either way but I figured if he wasn’t removed I’d just leave (no way that’s not coming to a head sooner or later, yknow?) I was immediately banned from the entire instance without even a message or anything about it. Just outright immediately banned.

      Sure, if that’s how hard you’re going to bat for nazis I don’t want to be here anyway. Shrug

      • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I saw a fellow mod outright nazi-ing about ( not “saying things I disagree with” but actual nazi fanboy-ing)

        A claim like this typically requires evidence.

      • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I think a lot of mods do it because they just have a lack of control in their lives and have this unhealthy need for it (not because they have free time and want to actually help grow the sub). Basically like HOA/Strata. Those guys are literally there not to upkeep the houses and buildings but to just be tyrants telling others what to do. My last HOA was so angry when people would feed the local rabbits (bEcAuSe tHeY MuLtIpLy oUt oF CoNtRoL) that they were threatening fines. I had to get the actual property management involved and the guy I spoke had a tone that he to was so done with them. Basically said that it was illegal and he would talk to them lol. I wouldn’t be surprised if half of them were reddit mods.

    • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Anytime I see a trash post that’s where it comes from 9/10.

      It’s 40% of the whole Lemmy userbase and activity. They’ve got their fair share of trolls but come on, the worst? Have you forgotten about redditors?

      It’s hard to be the biggest, and I think their admins are doing a pretty good job.

      • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Their admins are trash, troglodyte fascists. They banned me for disagreeing with someone’s opinions and calling them out for being pro-Hamas/pro-terrorism. Fuck them.

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    .world pre-emptively blocked the piracy comms because they are ostensibly based in Germany and have to abide by EU rules re: promotion/discussion of copyright infringement.

    Despite the fact that they were never even issued a warning for such an obscure internet forum, and plausible deniability because the content wasn’t even theirs, they thought it’s better be paranoid safe than sorry.

    ETA: so now .world has a stricter and more draconian policy regarding the discussion of piracy than Reddit, a publically traded entity based in the US, which has even harsher copyright infringement laws.