The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.
If this is a problem for you, I'd suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn't block it (such as lemm.ee).
edit:
An official announcement has been made:
I thought we escaped this bullshit here.
We did! Move to a better instance.
It's the ideal solution to corporate walled gardens.
Its social media, there is no escape unless you disconnect.
Well, lemmy.world has shown their hand. They don't seem to have any consistent defederaion or content policy other than "whatever they feel like."
Abandoning my lw account and switching to lemm.ee now.
About lemm.ee . . . it's a great instance, no doubt, but maybe not the safe haven you think it is. The rules there leave the option of blocking "illegal content" and users/instances that post it wide open.
Excerpted from the Administration and federation policy on lemm.ee (the bold is their own):
Our rules apply even when you’re posting in a community on another instance. For example, this means that you’re not allowed to post advertisement spam using your lemm.ee account on any other instance (even if that other instance has no rules).
Admins:
Purge illegal content from lemm.ee
Ban lemm.ee users who break our rules on other instances
I don't like to piss in other peoples' Wheaties, just trying to save you and others some trouble. If you're looking to change to a piracy-friendly instance that will remain so regardless of how "illegal content" is defined at any particular moment, lemm.ee might not be it.
Yeah I'm also going to switch I think.
I get it cuz corpos be sue happy lately but at least it shows the Federation's strength: simply having another account routes around the problem.
If this was reddit it'd be gone for good.
But here it's just a mild inconvenience.
I mean its not their fault for trying to be proactive with this site gaining so much online traction. People are complaining, but they posted the named instances!!!!! They know its bullshit but they were like hey just go here and make a new account! It wouldve been different if they done this quietly.
Me on sh.itjust.works still enjoying these posts 🥹
Haha power trip feels good it seems. The bane of fediverse existence.
Wtf. Just give them a warning or something. Even reddit still had a piracy community.
I'm really not a fan of the lw admins just blocking communities. It's not the first time either. It's even worse than defederating, because there's no record of it.
I signed up to lw on its almost first day, but with some of these policies, and constant downtimes, looks like I'll be moving. It's a bummer I've created all the communities here before lw became so big.
Just FYI but you can mod users on other instances to your communities on lemmy.world.
Yes I know, I just wish they were more diversified. When I was starting, I wasn't expecting Lemmy to take off like this, so I didn't care much at the time. Now it sucks especially due to the server downtimes.
Lemmy is still young. If you move your community now, pin an announcement on top with a link to the new one, and lock the old one, you'll probably have almost everyone following you. I did it for one of my communities, the subscribers number of the new one is almost identical to the old one.
It might be better to do it now than in a few weeks/months when your communities are much larger.
And this is the beauty of the fediverse right here: an instance decides it doesn't want some specific content doesn't mean the community dies. It just lives on on another instance.
Once these services can operate on the darknet like I2P (which supports anonymous torrenting btw), then things might really pick up steam.
Can we get a link to this announcement? I tried to look on Avaddon's profile but didn't see it
It was posted in the lemmy.world discord server.
Weird to announce it on discord when they could've, idk, announced it on lemmy.world. Anyway thanks for the answer
Yeah I don't really understand the need for a discord.
Transparency only when it suits the admins!
It seems to be unblocked? I can visit both those communities/instances via lemmy.world.
Yeah, found the announcement https://old.lemmy.world/post/6018317
That's super lame and disappointing. Democracy my ass, the users didn't vote for this.
And that's why a huge portion of that instance's userbase isn't there anymore.
Thanks for telling me about steam deck pirates chum
!steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Yeah! Sadly, not available on lemmy.world anymore but can be browsed via other instances.
Together with their recent removal of a community focused on shrooms, lemmy.world is starting to seem excessively puritanical for my tastes.
same.
I'm not a child. Stop treating me like it.
Do you know where did that community move to?
Super lame lemmy.world, I hope this decision can be reversed.
That’s the instance I’m on, what was the reason they blocked it?
It's possibly a reaction to this post but there hasn't been an announcement yet.