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Unremoval of Piracy Communities @ lemmy.world (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

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:

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com,

!steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com,

!piracy@lemmy.ml, and their local counterparts as follow up actions.

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

❤️

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[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 256 points 2 years ago

That's nice of them to walk it back. Definitely not something you'd see Reddit do

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 152 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it was a nice surprise for sure. I'm glad to have the lemmy.world crowd back, plenty of booty for all.

a pirate chest full of doubloons

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Glad to be back! I miss hearing about piracy news

[-] SweetMylk@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

Reckon they were also losing users cause of this decision.

[-] addison@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 years ago

Definitely. I migrated my account after they took an anti-piracy stance.

[-] DingDongBell@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Ye basically me, left right away to lemme.ee

[-] ZiemekZ@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Same here, now I only use .world only for .world communities, .ee for everything else.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

yeah I sure love lots of booty

[-] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Dude, I'm at work. Put a NSFW on that thing.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

What's reddit?

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 52 points 2 years ago

A lemmy clone.

[-] beSyl@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 years ago

A weird one. You create content and its shareholders buy new yachts.

[-] Daisyifyoudo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Exploitative and at the same time very user unfriendly. Weird one indeed.

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 6 points 2 years ago

The new Digg

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