edit: the have blocked the piracy comms, not the instance

  • Esoteir [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    imagine being more strict on piracy than reddit michael-laugh

    gotta appease those lemmy.world shareholders i guess

  • Freeanotherday [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I was on some instance and they mentioned .world is or is trying to be the face of the fediverse.

    I demanded democracy.

    vote hexbear-retro

    Authoritarian iberals will never allow us to vote who we want to represent the fediverse.

    i-voted

  • silent_water [she/her]
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    1 year ago

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

    jesse-wtf

  • Millie@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Easy enough to block .world and defederate from them on personal instances. It's devolved into a bunch of Reddit level shitposting already anyway.

  • HornyOnMain
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    1 year ago

    What massive fucking nerds lmao

  • putridfairytale [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    so fucking funny that these dweebs left reddit all in a self-righteous huff only to let that experience inform their efforts to build an even worse version of it

  • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The title is inaccurate. They blocked two specific piracy comms, not their entire instances. That is a measured way to avoid being taken down or sued for piracy.

  • Redcat [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    they are gonna block lemmy dot gardening because someone recommended not using monsanto's seeds and that's not fair

  • zoe@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    its for the benefit of everyone: its always possible to make separate accounts to satisfy separates needs: account for piracy, account for nsfw material, account for hex, etc..

      • zoe@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        in a perfect world yea, but in reality some distance need to be put between the user and some sensitive content: u got the rest of the fediverse to federate with. Legally pursuing Lemmy.world proves that Lemmy is in fact a house of cards against corporations might (a part from the current ddos attacks).well, at least the instance admin would be in danger. U wouldnt want a fellow lemmie to be hurt would u ? consider it an online social distance of some sort. At this rate, any instance with major usercount would be obliged to follow suit and block those communities/instances, Hex might as well block them from now. also we users oblige the instance owner to cache other instances content for us to browse, so having certain defederated blocks would ease the load on the overall instances, and as users, it would be our duty to have multiple accounts in those corresponding blocks, like Hogwarts Houses, or Hunger games districts.

        #spread_the_load