This is another post that alerted me of this.
https://lemmy.world/post/13287681
And here is the modlog:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity
Just a quick update, lemmy.world has posted an update that explains their decision here: https://lemmy.world/post/13319613
TLDR is that the person who removed the community is fairly new to the mod team and didn’t realize there was a bit of a history to this situation. Also, looks like they are sticking with the decision this time around though.
Please don’t harass the lemmy.world admins/mods though - if you don’t like the situation you are free to register here or on another instance. And if you aren’t a lemmy.world user, then this doesn’t affect you at all.
I’m proud of our community here, and it’s their loss, not ours!
Lemmy world mods are a joke.
this sounds familiar.
and some of their admins (Im looking at you Antik)
The translation is, “It wasn’t us don’t get angry, but also it kind of was one of us and also we are sticking by the decision so it may as well have been us.” I don’t really see that it matters if the story is true - in the best possible case they’re just saying that they don’t have a way of setting policies and having those policies be followed.
If we’ve learned anything from centralised platforms it’s that size doesn’t protect platforms from the consequences of making bad decisions.
Guess who just created a second account 👍
Would be nice if there was a Firefox extension or something to ‘merge accounts’ as a workaround. Make things a little easier in situations like this.
there is Lemmy handshake which syncs your communities on mobile, but welcome to db
Oh that’s pretty neat, haven’t seen it! Thanks for the tip
I did the same. Fuck that noise.
lemmy.world is what happens when liberals take over
What does that even mean
What?
They host what they want and don’t host what they seem as a risky set of content to platform?
I don’t get why you’re so mad someone who isn’t you chose what is and is not acceptable to them and what risks they are willing to take.
You talk like a lib LOL
lmao i don’t think their political affiliation is strictly related to how much of a pussy they are in this context
No communist, anarchist, or anyone lefty in general would ban a piracy community — short of getting in legal trouble or something, which is not what happened here.
I’m so used to people using liberals for the US left, that I forgot that liberals are on the right when I’ve first read your comment for a moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
The US is so close to becoming full-on fascist that people there are starting to associate liberals of all people with the left
Just deleted my account there and created this one earlier today. Hello!
If any admins of lemmy.world are around, I created c/westcoastedm for the explicit reason of sharing copyright protected music. Can you ban it too? Wouldn’t want to get you guys in trouble with mommy and daddy.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !westcoastedm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Absolute joke instance lmao.
I’m so glad I’m on my own instance.
I am running on Lemmy-Easy-Deploy but it seems to be abandoned. How do you have yours set up?
Manual docker deployment
I decided to move here as suggested :)
Well I guess that shows why I main kbin and not lemmy.world. Absolute dogshit decision from them.
Sigh.
On the up side, if anyone wants in, they are free to create accounts on other instances
Any good pro piracy instances?
Yepp - the one this community is on 🏴☠️
The part that annoys me is that this was done silently even though last time they said they would ask their users. Hopefully it was just an admin that didn’t get the last memo.
Edit: the community -> their users
I suspect something involving law enforcement or legal. Still would love if LW admins updated on this.
Indeed, especially with 0.19 that allows you to migrate your subs and block lists in two clicks
Wish that was around when I moved from lemmy.world to lemm.ee some time ago. It would have saved me a bit of time. Nice that it’s there for the future, though.
The speed that this happened suggests they might have gotten spooked by something. Put down the pitchforks mates and give them a chance to explain first.
Don’t you guys have an admin chat group. Or at least you guys would have some way of keeping in touch since this has happened before.
We do, in fact. They never gave a heads-up, and none has responded until now. I found about this from this post
That’s unfortunate.
Well at least they honored their commitments /s
because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.
It’s funny because someone on their team started banning people from that thread for disagreeing with their stance then when called out for it they quietly changed the instance bans for community bans, in an awesome display of pure pettiness one would normally see on Reddit.
When I described the previous removal as LW having a feud with dbzer0, that was why.
To be fair they do say they “need to be” transparent, not that they were going to be :p
🤣
“Just a heads up for when we do this again: we know that it sucks, and we are doing it anyway.”
😞 🧑🌾
They got lawyered maybe.
I’m doubtful
They’ve just posted.
It’s not a good explanation. The only thing that changed was their own minds.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they got some personally delivered letters from the legal department of a big media company, given that they blocked visibility to some magazines on other servers.
Per https://lemmy.world/post/13320356, they got a takedown notice and started going through everything with a fine toothed comb.
If there’s anything they should be spooked by, it’s the pitchforks!
Ill take a pitchfork in the guts any day if it keeps me away from being a debt slave to Disney for the rest of my life.
average lemmy.world moment
being the biggest has it’s problems
its
of itself
Luckily it doesn’t affect anything beyond people who insist on using only one instances (world). Glad to have dbzer0 around.
I have four accounts on the four instances that host communities I am interested in.
It’s a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised, but I guess that’s the only way federation can really work in practice (especially considering when an instance is blocked user on the blocker side just continue to see it frozen in time, with no warning as to what’s going on)
It’s a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised
I think this is precisely what the ActivityPub model of federation promised, actually 😅
Are the 4 instances defederated from eachother? If they aren’t then you could just have 2 accounts
Best play, run your own instance and federate with whoever you want :D
and if you’re really technical and really want to you can even bypass other people’s defederation attempts against you.
Takes away some of the anonymity though, even with domain registrar obfuscation etc., they’d probably disclose the owner to a request from whatever authority comes knocking. And if you’re based in a jurisdiction where piracy is explicitly forbidden, federating with db0 and effectively co-hosting links to prohibited content might open a whole other can of worms. And not everyone is technically competent enough to run and maintain an instance, even if the initial setup works out with one of the how-to’s.
Same. Beehaw is my main, but I also have a Kbin account (which I know is technically different), and then a LW account, which I almost never sign into.
Even my Mastodon account is separate. It’s fine this way. I don’t need everything on one account. With a password manager, it’s not like I have to remember passwords anyway.
You ever get the feeling for a flowchart?
Someone please make one.
I think a solution would be to have instances without communities.
It sucks, but I’m really trying to find instances with the most federation. I’d rather censor things myself than to have some useful idiot do it for me.
“Instance A blocked instance B, so now we have to use instance C to communicate with both.” Seems kind of roundabout, which is why I’m looking for the ‘ever-C’ instance that federates with the most.
I mean, the real end solution is to host your own server. Then you can federate/defederate with whoever the hell you want. As long as you don’t do anything to get banned from a specific instance, you’ll be fine.
But that’s more work than most people are willing to put into a Reddit clone.
The issue is that depending on where the Instance is located can mean that the person is liable for the content on their instance, or at least some corps will try to take them to court over that.
It would be really nice to have something you’ve described, but then who hosts the community and becomes liable?
Someone’s always going to be liable, that’s unavoidable.
I’m just spitballing ideas for how we can always connect to the servers we want to.
@Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com hit the nail on the head. Self-hosting would be the end goal, but it’s too much of a hassle for most people to go through.
So a few servers that exist solely to connect with the fediverse would be ideal for those people.
Glowies
WTF is a glowie?
A paranoidal schizophrenic and a single dev of Temple OS thought thar he’s watched and messed with by federal agencies. He knew, because he could see a glowing aura around them undercover agents. After his ramblings about it, 4chan boards users who watched his streams as a lolcow (a person of interest who can be milked for lulz) took this slang term from him. Then it spread everywhere.
Down the Rabbit Hole episode about him and his slow sad demise: https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg?si=JlPs70O5gQCvau2z
Ta.
The CIA got him in the end.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/UCgoxQCf5Jg?si=JlPs70O5gQCvau2z
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It refers to how obvious undercover agents can be in online forums. So obvious that they glow
Ta.
So did I miss a setting where an instance can ban remote communities for its user base? I know a user can ban individual communities now but I didn’t realize it could be done at an instance level for all users of that instance.
Just like you can defederate from an instance, you can selectively defederate from parts of that instance.
That’s new and well warranted from when I joined
