It’s gone. Wanted to ask over here before I went to check on Reddit.

    • nyoooom@lemmy.world
      161·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, it sucks but it makes sense, there is no one to defend those volunteer individuals if anyone wants to go after them.

      • Asuka@sh.itjust.works
        76·
        2 years ago

        How does it make sense? Did Comcast have to/did they block my access to RARBG while it still existed? No. I get removing piracy content on their own instance, but blocking other instances is not necessary.

        • sure@lemmy.ml
          14·
          2 years ago

          The problem is that the admins are all just volunteers and the instance doesn’t exist to make money. If a big company decides to sue them, even if they are in the right, they will be drowned in legal fees.

          • PoetSII@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            Not to mention, legality doesn’t need to be a question if the admins of Lemmy.world get drowned in legal fees before even having to appear in a court. The rich don’t exist by our laws and idk why anybody expects differently at this point.

    • Asuka@sh.itjust.works
      166·
      2 years ago

      Is allowing access to piracy resources the same as hosting piracy resources? Is Comcast at risk of being shut down because they didn’t block everyone’s access to RARBG? This is largely rhetorical; the answer is “no”. lemmy.world’s admins are not being honest.

  • madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world
    6212·
    2 years ago

    Lots of folks here with strong opinions that have never dealt with legal proceedings, or an itemized bill calculated in 6-minute increments.

  • Hiru@lemmy.world
    5112·
    2 years ago

    They did what? How are they suppose to tell me which communities I can check and which I am not allowed to see?

    Time to move to a new instance, good riddance

  • makeasnek@lemmy.ml
    254·
    2 years ago

    Not sure why nobody in the comments is distinguishing between blocking a community on an instance (removing /c/piracy) and defederating instances (saying your users can’t subscribe to otherinstance.com/c/piracy). They are very different things. We should be very skeptical of defederation.

    Removing a community because it violates the rules of your instance is A-OK and every instance should do this. Anybody can run an instance, and anybody can set their own rules, that’s the whole idea of federation.

    De-federating other instances because you find their content objectionable is less ok. Lemmy is like e-mail. Everybody registers at gmail or office365 or myfavoriteemail.com. Every email host runs their own servers, but they all talk to each other through an open protocol. You would be pissed to find out that gmail just suddenly decided to stop accepting mail from someothermailprovider.com because a bunch of their users are pirates or tankies. Or blocked your favourite email newsletter from reaching your inbox because it had inflammatory political content.

    Allowing your users to receive e-mail, or content from subcommunities on other lemmy instances is not a legal risk like hosting the content yourself is (IANAL etc). Same way Gmail is not liable if somebody on some other e-mail server does something illegal by emailing a gmail user. That’s why you can register at torrentwebsite.com and get a user confirmation email successfully delivered to your inbox. Gmail is federated with all other e-mail services without needing to endorse them or accept legal liability for them.

    Lemmy’s strength, value, and future comes from being the largest federated space for link-sharing and other forms of communication.

    Defederation is bad.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      It’s not really apt to compare email to Lemmy. Email is a one-to-one communication method, it’s like sending a letter in the mail. In the same way a mail carrier isn’t culpable if they deliver a package of drugs, Google isn’t responsible for delivering illegal emails. On Lemmy though, you’re hosting a copy of the post locally on your instance. It’s accessible to users as well as people who aren’t signed in.

  • rafa@lemmy.world
    195·
    2 years ago

    Great, time to change instance. At least it will have > 10% uptime

  • elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    131·
    2 years ago

    lemmy.world blocked it. I guess it is their right to do so, if you want to keep access to it move to another instance (it is not healthy that so many people are on LW).