“Unremoval of Piracy Communities” https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

This post needs to be updated to reflect the current policy.

Six months later, a new Removal of piracy communities announcement confirmed that these communities had been removed. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, which was the most popular piracy community, is still inaccessible to lemmy.world users. This is misleading: users see the old post, sign-up, and then find out they cannot access the community.

Please edit the original post to include the new removal announcement.

    • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
      611·
      9 hours ago

      People have had 2 years to switch to another instance. Lemmy.zip, used by OP, is nice.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        22·
        8 hours ago

        Personally I think if LW wants to ban a certain kind of content, more power to them. But they should be transparent about it.

        If they’ve said they’ll unban pirate content, then pirate content should be allowed. If they want it banned, fine, but make a statement clarifying that that is the case.

        OP is doing good work by pointing this out.

        • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          21·
          6 hours ago

          Then they’re the same as the Reddit users who refuse to move. It’s not hard to move to a different Lemmy/PieFed instance, that’s our strength. You can export your account data and import it to your new instance so your subscriptions transfer.

            • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
              3·
              4 hours ago

              Sure but IDK that just doesn’t seem important. That’s the same issue we had switching from Reddit to Lemmy. My Reddit posts aren’t gone and neither are my programming.dev posts, I’m here on retrolemmy.com now and I’m fine leaving my old account behind. If I need to edit an old post then I’ll open programming.dev but that doesn’t bother me.

              • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                4 hours ago

                IDK that just doesn’t seem important.

                I’m fine leaving my old account behind.

                Then we have different viewpoints. I’m very much NOT ok with leaving my old account behind.

                If AI hadn’t banned me on reddit, I’d be much happier over there. I’d have my old account, and all my post history going back 10 years. Which by this point would be more like 12 or 13 years.

                It’s not important to you, but it’s important to me. Just because youhave an opinion doesn’t make it “the right way”. Everyone can have different opinions, and thats ok.

                Literally 3 months after I got here, and started figuring out how the fediverse worked, I was calling for changes. Quite frankly, what I thought the fediverse was is a lot cooler than what it actually is.

                I can post a picture here from pixelfed, but it’s no different than posting a picture from imgur.

                So the account history is all I have to look back at.