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

❤️

  • bean@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    This is what I like to see. Not just heels digging in, but explanations as to why, the follow-ups, the investigation of options and follow through. Thanks for the transparency. Piracy has and won’t ever go away. I used to pirate due to lack of money and resources. When I had those I went legit. When legit sources started turning into:

    • monthly subscriptions for everything
    • when legit sources suddenly delete or remove content from their systems (to avoid paying taxes?)
    • when the rates go up for everything (internet access AND streaming services)
    • now ads in your paid services unless you pay more (Amazon)
    • Plex trying to go legit and police where and how people run their private streaming, fucking over license holders who built the financial footing they could stand on in the first place. Cool.

    You can’t rely on any shit from these services, except for one shit… enshittification.

    I don’t want to sound negative, but as a consumer, it’s been nothing but ads rammed down our throats from everywhere we go and look. They lie, they change rates, they shrinkflate, while their pockets get bigger. Long live piracy.

  • Gamey@feddit.de
    0·
    1 year ago

    I am fairly sure that good parts of that post are lies, I looked quite close at the situation when it happened and from all I could find those “takedown requests” was a single troll who got banned dbzer0 for their right extreme garbage. You also made claims about unmoderated illegal material in those communities which was simply wrong but I would have understood the move if you explained it like you do here right from the start and it’s great to see a mistake reversed! I am not going to pretend that this Federation while not actually illegal can’t cause annoyances and it’s great to see you reverse it despite that, keep it up! :)

    • Extreme Soup@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Tinfoil hat time 🤡.

      Takedown requests, ofc, companies & foundations should allways make those public 🙄🤯.

      • Gamey@feddit.de
        0·
        1 year ago

        If they write a thread with questionable reasoning I would expect them to include the actual reason as well or skip the thread but you guys are right, I don’t own a instance so I don’t have a clue about those actions…

      • Gamey@feddit.de
        0·
        1 year ago

        The original removal thread cited the report of a user who got banned from dbzer0 for transphobic messages and made a fresh account on lemmy.world just to report them and talked about potentially copyrighted material they don’t want to store. None of that matched with the responses from dbzer0 or my own experience on that instance. The Piracy and Arnachy instance has been one of the best examples of good moderation and civil behaviour on Lemmy since they moved here.

        • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          1 year ago

          The response here is bizarre, to put it mildly. I thought everyone knew about that transphobe, and how this whole Lemmy.world anti-piracy thing started. Either way, sorry you got downvoted.

          • Gamey@feddit.de
            0·
            1 year ago

            Well, that’s Lemmy.world I guess, Luckily I found a nicer place by now lol

    • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      “I DID MY OWN RESEARCH” vibes. What, you think takedown requests would be made in threads? Or that we would announce them publicly?

      You are absolutely clueless.

      • Gamey@feddit.de
        0·
        1 year ago

        You announced a clear reasoning publically that included a lot of questionable stuff, I am sorry if you got actual takedown requests too but I can’t know those if you don’t announce them. Again I won’t claim that this can’t cause you any trouble, just that the thread you published about blocking them wasn’t great…

  • Chonk@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I have love/hate relationship with piracy. I love doing it but hate when it’s done with my products.

    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I get what you’re trying to say, but at the same time the corps say “fuck our customers”. You’re a number. They don’t want you to have anything and they just want your money. Look at Amazon pulling purchased books from kindle users. And they’re not the only ones.

  • spaxxor@lemmy.world
    02·
    1 year ago

    Mildly irritating that I’ve got to manually block those communities… but it’s whatever