Hello World!

As we’ve all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn’t want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it’s time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it’s been a rough ride with everything, and we’d like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

❤️

    • Gamey@feddit.de
      10·
      1 year ago

      The original removal thread cited the report of a user who got banned from dbzer0 for transphobic messages and made a fresh account on lemmy.world just to report them and talked about potentially copyrighted material they don’t want to store. None of that matched with the responses from dbzer0 or my own experience on that instance. The Piracy and Arnachy instance has been one of the best examples of good moderation and civil behaviour on Lemmy since they moved here.

        • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m confused, did people forget that this is what happened? The account that made the original post on Lemmy.world saying that they should defederate from dbzer0 was literally a transphobic troll account that had recently been banned by dbzer0. It was clear that they were just trying to screw the piracy communities for banning him, but Lemmy.world took the bait.

          This was pretty widely known so I’m kind of confused as to the response here.

          Edit: Here’s a post that goes over it a little. Not in detail, but just talking about that troll a bit more and showing some modlogs.

          Edit: And here’s db0 literally confirming it

      • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        The response here is bizarre, to put it mildly. I thought everyone knew about that transphobe, and how this whole Lemmy.world anti-piracy thing started. Either way, sorry you got downvoted.