cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6018317

Hello World!

As we’ve all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:

In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn’t want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it’s time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it’s been a rough ride with everything, and we’d like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

❤️

  • ultratiem@lemmy.caEnglish
    23106·
    1 year ago

    “We love you… unless it’s not in our best interest to do so.”

    • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
      655·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy instances are run by VOLUNTEERS! Lemmy.world is not a COMPANY. A company can have an army of lawyers. An instance run by VOLUNTEERS cannot.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      364·
      1 year ago

      We’ll see you battling takedown requests and not being paid to do so.
      All at the risk of a lawyer coming for your ass and closing the whole server down.

      • SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.mlEnglish
        46·
        1 year ago

        Battling a takedown request when you’re hosting nothing is very easy to do (yes, I’ve done it, I literally automated the email responses and they were just a sophisticated “go fuck yourself”). And my forum was small, with fewer users and most likely fewer means than the redditors in charge of Lemmy.world (I was fully on my own).

        Make a guess if I even had to worry about hiring a solicitor (hint: I have negative money to my name).

    • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      That’s kind of how it should work everywhere though. Cher figured that out about Sonny eventually for instance.