Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were:

We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world’s users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.

This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

  • Justin
    -17•1 year ago

    Calling fellow users idiots isn’t exactly nice.

    • Walt J. RimmerEnglish
      18•1 year ago

      He didn’t call us idiots. He called us unempathetic. And I’d say that’s been a fair assessment of a lot of the internet. I know that when I was on Reddit, I’d read a lot of comments that were filled with entitlement, people feeling they were owed something especially if that something was free, and very little empathy. For how much Redditors (and now that many of us have fled to Lemmy to build a new social media life, Lemmings) like to criticize the, “They’re just lazy, I’m really struggling,” mindset, they sure do like to ask for free things but complain if people treat them the same way.

      • @ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        It’s not just the Internet. There is an irregular declension that is used all over the place. It was immortalized by Bernard Woolley in that pair of documentary programs Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister:

        That’s one of those irregular verbs, isn’t it. I have an independent mind, you are an eccentric, he is round the twist.

        You see it everywhere. A common one goes like this: “I speak frankly, you’re being harsh, he’s an aggressive asshole”.

        Once you see that pattern of irregular verb conjugation in one place, you see it everywhere.