190

Official Statement from Lemmy.world admin about community removal (alexandrite.app)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by moeka89@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

115 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Ugetsu@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago

That´s one thing I GENUINELY can´t wrap my head around with lemmy in general. How is it, that the admins of one lemmy instance feel responsible for what gets posted in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT instance to the point they feel the need to keep their own members from even seeing it? It doesn´t reflect negatively on firefox, that they allow me to access piracy sites. It doesn´t reflect negatively on gmail that they allow me to use their email address to subscribe to piracy stuff. Why would it reflect negatively on lemmy.world, if their members also accessed piracy stuff? Are the admins of lemmy.world somehow responsible for what their members do, even if it´s not on their own instance?

[-] AAA@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago

Are the admins of lemmy.world somehow responsible for what their members do, even if it´s not on their own instance?

They are not responsible for what their users do, but for what is saved on their instance. And by any lemmy.world user interacting with content from a different instance, their lemmy.world will host a copy of that content. That's how lemmy works.

So if a lemmy.world user subscribes to a pirate sub, that whole subs content is now mirrored on lemmy.world.

Not just related to piracy that's a huge liability issue for admins.

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But piracy instances aren't hosting the pirated content either. It's hosted on seperate servers and it is only linked AFAIK.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I think the reasoning is stupid in this particular case. But there are good reasons to defederate from instances due to the content they allow in some cases.