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Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://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

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Still don't trust them, they recently censored the fosscad community without announcement or warning.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That's why there're are different instances. No one can force you to join lemmy.world just like no one can force them to host content they don't want to host.

[–] code@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Wheres it going?

[–] antik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For those that don't know what "fosscad" is, it was a community where they were sharing 3D printing schematics for guns and other weapons. Which is an entirely different legal nightmare with different laws in different countries.