mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 days ago
I had no idea this was a thing. Interesting. I can see from liability why this is not something they want to touch, being a general purpose instance.
I think lemmy/fediverse needs a place where if you try and subscribe to something blocked, you get a post/page explaining why they did the thing. Its going to confuse new users otherwise.
jqubed@lemmy.world 5 days ago
IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Considering the bullshit spewed by them to justify their ban of pro-Luigi comments, claiming they consulted a lawyer, I doubt this ever happened.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Is it a known thing that they were dishonest about speaking to a lawyer with that situation?
I’ve been meaning to change instances and find a new home, if it’s known that they lied or mislead their users thats something I’d love to know more about
regedit@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I’ve been on a few instances. Was on lemm.ee before owner-fatigue. Joined a couple since, but lemmy.zip felt closer to my old instance than any other. Super transparent admin and one of the reasons I have a monthly donation set up. Got good quality folks here, also!
Blaze@piefed.zip 4 days ago
Hey Cris,
As someone else said in the comments, https://lemmy.zip is very nice. You can see the monthly updates from the admins on !home@lemmy.zip
And if you want to give Piefed a chance, they have https://piefed.zip/ as well
You can import your Lemmy.world settings and blocks from the account settings
freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
They did not admit it. I don’t think anyone could have have proof they didn’t. Only the ridiculousness of their arguments.
I_Am_Lying@lemmy.org 4 days ago
Lemmy.org doesn’t require an email to sign up. And as far as I can tell you see all the same stuff as lemmy.world.