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?

    • zcd
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      6 months ago

      No balls

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        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.

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        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.

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

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        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

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          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.

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        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.

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    Lemmy world is the worst. Anytime I see a trash post that’s where it comes from 9/10.

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      I originally joined up to .world and offered to mod a few communities, cause whatevs I got free time. I saw a fellow mod outright nazi-ing about ( not “saying things I disagree with” but actual nazi fanboy-ing) so asked instance admin if he could be removed as a mod from said community we shared. It was a polite message, and I wasn’t gonna harp or bitch about it either way but I figured if he wasn’t removed I’d just leave (no way that’s not coming to a head sooner or later, yknow?) I was immediately banned from the entire instance without even a message or anything about it. Just outright immediately banned.

      Sure, if that’s how hard you’re going to bat for nazis I don’t want to be here anyway. Shrug

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        I saw a fellow mod outright nazi-ing about ( not “saying things I disagree with” but actual nazi fanboy-ing)

        A claim like this typically requires evidence.

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              Who would I have a screenshot from an account I had for like 2 weeks, what, two years ago now?

              I get it, you’re being disingenuous and want to argue that its only Nazi if its from the Nazi region of Germany, otherwise it’s just sparkling fascism which is actually A-OK or that “um, ackhthually, nobody supports Nazis on the internet.”

              Either way, you go dig through two years of mod logs or wtfever. Have fun.

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        They are both bad for different reasons.

        Kbin has uncontrolled spam because the administrator, Ernest, likes to go AWOL for months on end and wants to do everything completely by himself. Currently, Kbin.social has been unreachable for 4-5 days - whether that’s because something legitimately broke or Ernest pulled the plug on things we don’t know because he actually hates communicating with people. He could gain so much more goodwill from the community if he just left a one sentence post saying “I am still alive, I am still updating things, be patient.”

        Lemmy World sucks because the admins suck, the moderators suck, and the majority of the userbase don’t seem to be interested in creating quality content. Most of the people there are only there because their Reddit app doesn’t work anymore.

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          I’m here because r/piracy lead me here :)
          My first account was actually made on lemmy.world until I saw mentions of this instance. Very grateful to db0!

          Let’s agree that it’s the “Both? Both!” meme.

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      Anytime I see a trash post that’s where it comes from 9/10.

      It’s 40% of the whole Lemmy userbase and activity. They’ve got their fair share of trolls but come on, the worst? Have you forgotten about redditors?

      It’s hard to be the biggest, and I think their admins are doing a pretty good job.

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        Their admins are trash, troglodyte fascists. They banned me for disagreeing with someone’s opinions and calling them out for being pro-Hamas/pro-terrorism. Fuck them.

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          Sounds like you’re a troglodyte genocide apologist to me. Resistance to occupation and siege is legal under international law, including through force of arms.

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          I got banned for spreading “disinformation” about how badly the war with Ukraine is going for Russia.

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    Yeah they blocked it a few months ago. I don’t remember the specifics, but it seemed like a new mod/admin came into play and didn’t get the memo about Lemmy and trying to be more transparent and engaged with communities. Just poof

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      i’ve noticed that LW replaces what i assume are some slurs in comments with removed it’s automated, there’s no indication that content was edited, nobody announced that, nothing appears in modlog so it must be done in db directly

      that and they also prohibit use of vpns and tor

      they also took suspiciously long to defederate exploding heads, compared to some leftist instance that i don’t remember now but that instance wasn’t an issue

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      If that’s the case, I’d say the new mod did get the memo about Lemmy, and about the fediverse at large, and actually understood the legal risks involved in hosting this community.

      Federation works by receiving and locally storing content from remote instances, which means any instance based in the USA is going to assume some significant legal risks by not banning this community.

      It’s not that they’re refusing to let people look through a window into another, remote host. It’s that they’re refusing to host and serve that content from their own website.

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    Yes. I left lemmy.world because they banned this instance. You can’t ban pirates (;

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    I thought it was reversed after they got major backlash? Apparently not

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    I regret having donated to lemmy.world. The administration there is looking more and more like u/spez.