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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.
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.
I don't think there's anything set in stone, really. Or if it is it was Tl;Dr for me.
But in the past we used to vote (with upvotes/downvotes and or opinions in form of comments) on decisions or at least some instances/communities did/do it like that.
I don't know about any vote having been done on this decision though since I'm pretty sure if there was this decision wouldn't have been made.
Though from the view of the Admin I can definitely understand blocking piracy communities, because if someone uploaded copyright infringing content on any instance, every instance that federates with it would get into major trouble for (1) cloning such content and (2) making it available to more users.
Kind of like torrenting without the P2P aspect.
In the real world there's these people called "Lawyers" who will happily sue relatively small, cash poor platforms like lemmy.world out of existence. What would you like the admins to do? Are you coughing up legal fees for them?
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.
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.
I tried signing up for shit but it gave me an error and I never got a verification email. Tried again and it said my email exists, so tried logging in but still invalid credentials 🫠
Maybe I’m misunderstanding this, but there’s nothing stopping anyone from having logins in either place. Using Voyager, for instance, I can have multiple logins on multiple servers with the same app.
It's annoying having to create logins on multiple instances. I always forget passwords and have to remember which servers i have accounts.
For example i had an account on one of the "lemmy. something" instance, but they defederated from shit.justworks so i created an account there. I changed phone and i relogged in from shitjjustworks but forgot what was my other login. And now do i have to create a new one to access the piracy one?
I wish there was one Lenny instance i could create an access and have access to the entirety of lemmy, without having to bother
Use a password manager! it takes me literally less than 30 seconds to generate a password (and username if you want) make a new account and save the password
The workflow is so much better than relying on your own passwords
I wish there was one Lenny instance i could create an access and have access to the entirety of lemmy, without having to bother
That's most of them honestly. lemm.ee doesn't really block anyone for example. The only major instance that blocks sh.itjust.works is beehaw.org, but they block a significant amount of instances.
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.
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.
Yeah you just need to create an account on another instance, hope it doesn't get blocked there too or the instance doesn't block other stuff you want, migrate your stuff...
Based on community reaction I don't feel like its been banned just yet. More like bungiefan made a fool of himself, mods banned him, and locked the thread.
Edit: just searched, not showing up. Would like at least some clarification from admins/staff on what the reasoning was.
Edit 2: Left this reply in Lemmy.world's discord server:
I feel it needs to be addressed. It looks bad on world to take this action without publicly stating a reason, especially considering the clear answers it gave for more malicious communities
Is there an instance i can use to view "banned" magazines like this? Was just getting settled with Sync on lemmy.world, then suddenly all this stuff disappears. This fediverse shit is so confusing, i just want one central spot to browse my communities.
If this is a concern for you then I'd recommend just switching to an instance that isn't ban-heavy and you can carry on as normal from there, like lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works (note: I've heard this has issues with sending verification issues), lemmy.ca.
Eh, I think i'm just going back to reddit at this point, clearly this federation thing is not working out for the user. Sad since [email protected] is superior to the one on reddit but I guess I don't need to have an account to browse it.
Just register for another instance and carry on as normal? e.g https://lemm.ee/ federation works fine - at least here on Lemmy (unlike Reddit) we have the choice to use instances with preferences that match our own.
I migrated my subscriptions using LASIM. This took me about 5 mins.
You're missing the point of federation, the entire crux that Lemmy was built on. You're not hosting the content, they're not inherently damaging the ecosystem itself, yet the admins have taken unilateral action to remove access to a community.