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:
- [email protected],
- [email protected],
- [email protected], and their local counterparts as follow up actions.
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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Hey that’s great, good job! I’m so unused to any disappointing decision being reversed, this really is an amazing site.
Thank you for the very informative post. Your professional way of handling the issue, puts corporate professionals, “cough” Reddit “cough”, look like the amateurs they really are
That’s what I thought while reading this. After being on reddit for so long posts like these are such a breathe of fresh air. In my time on Reddit the trend was ALWAYS 1: bad changes 2: worse change 3: nothing, it just becomes the new normal then, if anything 4: even worse changes.
Blows my mind to see a site be cognizant of their users, listen to them and actually idk, work to fix things? Bravo.
You forgot the random instant site-wide permabans without explanation or possibility for appeal.
Wow, I had actually forgotten about those. Not to mention that every time I checked my inbox I was being blanket banned from a host of subs because I had accidentally commented to a no-no sub, or said something mildly controversial… I’m not even that controversial of a person haha but not fitting in perfectly and submitting to the echo chambers meant punishment… just so strange
This is my first comment ever using this platform.
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@antidote101 @lwadmin Welcome💞
Hey thanks! Feels good to be away from Reddit!
@antidote101 Yeah absolutely! Enjoy…🤗
you want a brownie button?
What exactly do you think the upvote button is? You know brown is just a shade of orange.
I’m glad you guys took a measured approach. This right here is the difference between a corporation and Lemmy. I can’t imagine a for-profit reversing its decision in the interest of the community unless it affected their bottom line or stock price. Hats off to the admin team for working through all these complex issues.
Good Communication is the key for everything
Nah man, tried this with my dog. He still humps the pizza delivery guy’s leg
Thank you for doing all of this including writing this post. The haters are binary thinkers who can’t be bothered with pesky things like “context” and “reality”
To all the people saying “too late, I already switched”: why bother commenting?
I think it’s fine and healthy for the fediverse if people spread out across different servers, it distributes the hosting cost.
I don’t see a problem with announcing they “moved and aren’t coming back despite the reversal” on this particular thread, it appears relevant.
Why bother pointing out people commenting? I guess we’re all a little confused.
To explore the human condition 🤠
It’s the same as the people leaving Reddit but still talking about it
To show what happens if you don’t listen to the community before making changes, I’m guessing.
But they are not incentivized to grow numbers exponentially like shareholder funded companies. They make money from community involvement and value-added services. Instead, they removed these type of contents because they felt like those communities needed to reform their overall community personality. In the end, it is all a community effort to help one another. now that users have switched, there is less legal pressure, and the people who moved have helped make these other servers better. It was a win-win for us. I am grateful to all the people who made the move and participated in posting to their respective communities.
Also, this helps lessen the host cost on them. Lastly, a federated community is not the same as these mega corps.
My humble opinion is that the community can fuck off in matters like this. The random poster isn’t risking life-destroying legal trouble like the people running the servers are.
Too late, already commented. And switched. ;)
Well, I did it too, and it is not worth making a whole comment about it because all of our reasons are predictable and this is the Fediverse and spreading is good.
Now, I’m a bit out of the loop with the server uptime and all, but maybe if things are better I can consider Lemmy.world my backup account again… because I don’t really have one anymore.
Nice.
I hope the shrooms community can also be unbanned.
Wait what? Why was the shroomy bois banned?
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These posts reassure me that I chose the right instance. Thank you!
What does instance do exactly? I’m using boost for lemmy and just picked the first one on the list…
It’s basically your entry point into the fediverse. You can still read and comment on other instances, as long as your instance is playing nice with others.
You can even set up your own and connect boost to that if you like. You’ll still be part of the bigger 'verse.
I thank you for the work put into reversing the block.
Love the username, such fond memories.
Aye matey, aye matey. 🏴☠️
This is why lemmy is already better than Reddit. Thanks for being transparent and following through.
Thank you for being willing to protect this service when necessary, and improve it when able.
Thank you for being so transparent with us.
Well damn, thanks for getting it done. Didn’t think it would happen and I wasn’t surprised you guys wanted to avoid the legal risk.
Excellent news. Respect.
