• SteefLem@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why tho. I can block a community myself if i dont want to see it. This does not make sense.

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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        They want to avoid lawsuit. Which are probably going to happen to dbzer0, I don’t know where they are hosted, but they might get in trouble once they reach a large userbase

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          There is no “maybe”, that’s exactly what it is (it’s in the OP’s link).

          Lemmy.world may be one of the largest instances but it never promised to be a straight Reddit clone. While it’s still figuring out scaling up and still attracting large DDOS attacks, the last thing they need to be dealing with is DMCA claims and letters from copyright lawyers.

          This is the beauty of federated social media. Don’t like the rules? Go somewhere else.

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            Me? I currently don’t care… I am not interested in that community, I know that people who are interested can still visit it from other instances.

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        Because community content is cached on other instances, so you can find all the content from these piracy communities under the lemmy.world domain as well and this is likely to be interpreted by law enforcement / a judge as hosting this content, which can get the server admins into legal trouble depending on the jurisdiction.

        • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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          IIRC, lemmy.world is hosted in the US, making them liable under US laws.

          edit: IR incorrectly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            They are actually hosted in Finland, but some of the admins are US based and can thus also get into legal trouble. Not sure about the legal situation in Finland.

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        The server and owner are in Europe. Though the anti piracy laws here are tough. Honestly can’t blame them.

        There are other instances that don’t have this issue though.

      • theneverfox@pawb.social
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        It does. Defederating basically blocks all their communities and users for everyone on your instance. It’s a far bigger deal than blocking a community

        I still don’t agree with the decision, but it’s a matter of scale