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Was this community banned on lemmy.world? I was trying to access some bookmarked posts and comments but they weren't there. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As stated in the title, I went to some posts and comments that I had bookmarked for some media that I was trying to download. This was on my lemmy.world account. Turns out they're gone. Doing some digging and found out this community was still up but wasn't visible on lemmy.world. what happend?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yep. They defederated bc of legal risk I think?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (3 children)

No balls

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

When you do not have much of a bank account and you could easily be starting at tens of thousands in legal fees, it's pretty easy to be unable to find them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Totally. I mean, it could cost you your life savings and possibly your freedom if they come for you. But their admin's life savings is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah it is super shitty

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There is no legal risk because no one is sharing files. All they do is share information. They likely did it because they morally disagree. But then like go ahead and let companies do whatever they want, like gate games behind every single different OS. Bought SF6 for console and want to play it on PC? Go fuck yourself, buy it again. It's wild that "piracy" is instantly bad yet whatever a company does is A-OK-USA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Da Fuq?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

so you can defederate from a single community? or they have defederated from the entire instance?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

admins banned a community, not one but three. this one, piracy at .ml and another one at db0. it's likely that lw admins defederated from entire instance too

e: i think it happened in the past but now db0 is federated with lw

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Can confirm, it's only the piracy communities that are blocked, and we are still otherwise federated with lw. It's not really a big problem as far as we are concerned, they can pick and choose whatever communities suit their instance. We will have lost some clicks and visibility from them, but at the end of the day, it's not going to affect our share price lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I’m not sure what the semantics are. Maybe you defederate from an instance and block a community? But I’m just guessing. Semantics aside, if someone has an account at lemmy.world and tries to access the piracy community, they will not be successful.