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

edit:

An official announcement has been made:

  • shortypig@lemmy.world
    2311·
    2 years ago

    I really don’t get what’s going on with lemmy.world blocking communities like this. Without the threat of loss of ad revenue what is to be gained from blocking communities exercising free speech?

    • Vent@lemm.ee
      251·
      2 years ago

      Lower risk of lawsuits, especially frivolous ones

      • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
        101·
        2 years ago

        And that is why the way federation works right now needs a rethink. Users should be able to access content not cached by their home servers, so that the servers can defederate and don’t get into hot water for content from federated instances.

      • shortypig@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        I suppose. I guess my innocent naive brain has trouble imagining the soapbox bearing any responsibility for the speaker atop it.

      • inasaba@lemmy.mlEnglish
        46·
        2 years ago

        I could respect it if they owned that and said “we are covering the admin team’s butts.” Instead, they say this is to protect users. Laughable.

    • Rottcodd@kbin.social
      101·
      2 years ago

      You seriously don’t understand what would lead some otherwise ordinary people who happened to start a lemmy instance that happened to become the biggest one from blocking a community the mere existence of which on their servers could lead to them getting sued into bankruptcy by some multinational corporation?