The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.

If this is a problem for you, I’d suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn’t block it (such as lemm.ee).

edit:

An official announcement has been made:

  • shortypig@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I really don’t get what’s going on with lemmy.world blocking communities like this. Without the threat of loss of ad revenue what is to be gained from blocking communities exercising free speech?

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        1 year ago

        And that is why the way federation works right now needs a rethink. Users should be able to access content not cached by their home servers, so that the servers can defederate and don’t get into hot water for content from federated instances.

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          1 year ago

          I agree, but I wonder what the implications are for resources. I imagine that takes a whole lot more, instead of caching.

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        1 year ago

        I suppose. I guess my innocent naive brain has trouble imagining the soapbox bearing any responsibility for the speaker atop it.

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        1 year ago

        I could respect it if they owned that and said “we are covering the admin team’s butts.” Instead, they say this is to protect users. Laughable.

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          1 year ago

          They said more than just the users lol. Why make shit up?

          They said it’s to protect the instance, the admins, and the users specifically because of potential lawsuits and legal issues.

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      1 year ago

      You seriously don’t understand what would lead some otherwise ordinary people who happened to start a lemmy instance that happened to become the biggest one from blocking a community the mere existence of which on their servers could lead to them getting sued into bankruptcy by some multinational corporation?