cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638
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:
The problem with how this system works is that you have to accept all content on your servers that you federate with. Even linking can violate DMCA.
The fact is we don’t allow copyrighted material, torrent files or direct download links on c/piracy anyway, it’s against our rules. So this whole thing is based on a malicious misrepresentation of our community, initiated by a user with a grudge against us, because we banned him for posting anti-trans and racist content.
that may technically be true, but I think people should be more willing to take a stand, and not just pre-emptively bow down to the copyright trolls, because it’s basically legally unenforceable especially the larger this the federation gets
I’ll give them credit that they didn’t defed the entire instance and I guess it’s their server their rules
If you want to take a stand, host your own instance. If you aren’t willing to do that, you are just hoping someone else will suffer the consequences for you.
to my knowledge this is the one instance that isn’t willing to take that stand lol, it should be understand that all instances in the federation share a common interest to protect their users against copyright trolls