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[email protected] has also been blocked from lemmy.world.

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Lemmy.world has released an official response.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To be honest, it's not a huge deal. The copyright cartel can easily send dmca requests to your isp just for having text guidelines. Not everyone has the bandwidth or energy to deal with stuff like that.

I just wish this wasn't done at the request of a transphobic racist who just did it to get back at is for getting banned for making transphobic and racist communities in this instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't need lemmy world anyways. This is the most based instance on the entire fediverse. Their loss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So beehaw was right whey they defederated from .world, there is shadiness there...

PS: this is one of the best communities in the fediverse, good job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Fucking Lemmy.world is hot garbage. They're down every day and are constantly defederating with any instance that doesn't fit their narrow, sanitized world views. It's also one of the most recommended Lemmy's with more new users going there than anywhere else. I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain. Especially if this domain makes as many boneheaded decisions as lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain.

I agree, but 50% is still better than 100%. I definitely appreciate that I'm reading about this while being totally unaffected personally rather than just disappearing entirely like what happens with a banned subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We badly need Lemmy clients that can merge instances even if they're defederated, as well as the other way around, filter out entire instances even if your instance won't defederate from them. Letting instance owners dictate what you can or cannot see is not the way.

There are clients that will do the former (eg. Liftoff) but I'm not aware of any that will do the latter. I don't understand why, it can't be that hard to filter users and communities by instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Let the garbage go there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think lemmy.world gather the kind of redditors that like sanitized world views, the power of decentralization makes us choose an instance without those hot garbaje takes as lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They should have shut down registrations a long time before they gained such a majority of users.

They stand behind the lie that "if we didn't let people in, they wouldn't know where to go"... as if it's so hard to create a new registration page that re-routes people to other instances.

I'll never understand the selfishness of people like that. They know they're actively hurting all of lemmy, but they want to keep all the users to themselves. This thing only works if it's a collection of smaller instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

100% spot on. I got called all sorts of names for pointing this out, but maybe my own fault for pointing it out on one of their posts! 😅

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people register there initially to get their feet wet and move on to another instance later for these reasons. At least we have subscriptions/blocks transferring tools now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did it the moment they decided not to defederate from Meta. I don't like admins who can't take decisive actions to protect their users (and apparently seem to bend their knees to any big corpo out there)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

@tron @Madbrad200 >Fucking Lemmy.world is hot garbage. They’re down every day and are constantly defederating with any instance that doesn’t fit their narrow, sanitized world views.

welcome to the fedi, first day here? :guraKekw:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feels like an obvious bullshit cop-out reason to defederate against a specific community that they don't like for whatever silly reason they can't reveal to the public.

Never have I seen an actual link to content survive very long on lemmy.ml or dbzer0.com. Just like the good old /r/Piracy we discuss piracy, but we do not directly facilitate it.

Someone please slap the back of their heads repeatedly and aggressively with these facts. This excuse is disingenuous as hell.

If you are a user of lemmy.world; RUN. NOW! Find a new instance. Switch away from them before they reach terminal enshitification velocity.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

enshitification

You're already misusing our cool new word. Cut it out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. It is enshitification. Do not @ me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.world is dogshit. It feels like a nanny instance or like a reddit 2.0. Idk why people keep joining that bullshit instead of spreading out.

I'm so happy that I joined a small instance that hasn't defederated or been defederated from anyone

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go be a shepherd and encourage people to move elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it got me to move, so something is working.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too. I just found hexbear.net. Much better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not much, what's hex with you? 🤣

I think it is an instance full of evangelical leftists?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gross and they replied to my comment. I need a shower now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No evangelism of any kind--rather dirtbag leftism. Chapo Trap House is defined on Wikipedia. They've been around for a while. They've got podcasts. They write books. They're smart, well-informed, and take no prisoners. They're also comradely toward honest, curious newcomers. If one were, say, proudly liberal and sure in their understanding of history and politics, it probably wouldn't be a good fit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Chapo Trap House lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also censor the word "bitch". Not a good look.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this is better tbh, I personally don't like it when piracy forums/sites/whatever piracy related thing goes too mainstream. Maybe it's gatekeeping, I don't know, I just don't want another Z-Library incident.

Either way, they probably aren't even against piracy, they're probably just lazy and don't want to deal with any of the issues they could potentially face down the line.

Edit - grammar

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

How does this affect me? I still see the community, and I'm still able to post on it. Why do I care what lemmy.world is doing?