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.
That’s what I don’t get about these “Hmmph, I’m leaving!” posts. Unlike Reddit, .world isn’t getting anything whatsoever from you using their instance for free. If every single person left, that’s just less unpaid work for Ruud to do. Sign up to another instance and move on, the theatrics are pointless.
I can’t speak for OP, but mine wasn’t a tantrum of leaving. It was simply a frustration in having to find another instance that is accepting users and generally matches up with my views, and then rebuilding a new account with new subscriptions and new blocks etc. Maybe I’m missing something? It’s really frustrating to have to rebuild your entire account because an instance admin blocked a community you were active in for semi-arbitrary reasons. If we could easily migrate accounts between instances, it would be very different.
You can just copy settings from one to another. Which does all the subs.
I can see what you’re saying. I knew from the beginning that I’d probably be making multiple accounts due to how the fediverse works, so didn’t get too attached to any one of them. There’s definitely some culture shock for people used to walled gardens like Reddit.
It’s a little funny to imagine them making a scene about leaving and then you see them still active here but with an account from another instance.