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:
- [email protected],
- [email protected],
- [email protected], and their local counterparts as follow up actions.
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
❤️
very cool people
Am I correct to assume this also means people who know a thing or two about this thing or two?
I’m really glad to have this community back. I got some good advice for getting tools to download a less financially vampiric version of Adobe Photoshop and premiere.
If you don’t need the advanced features of photoshop, paint.net is a good lightweight and free alternative. It has all the basic layer-based editing features.
Krita and photogimp also come pretty close :)
Photogimp? Is that like gimp for bitmap content?
It’s a GIMP patch. OSS and all. You can find it here: https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Nicee, will check that out when i’m next on my computer 👌
What I like about Photoshop is how much the program works for me. I had been using gimp before, but everything is done so manually. Photoshop does a good job detecting objects, and the quick select tool is so convenient. I will check out paint.net, but I like having software that does not require Internet as well.
My eternal wish has been for Paintnet to be on Linux. Pinta is pretty good but Paintnet is actually good.
Maybe one day GIMP 3 will come out
I unironically love your reply, because there are like 20 ways it can be read and replied to. That’s a good one.
I’ve found CS6 has almost every feature you’d want and it’s well over a decade old now. Much better in my mind than paying monthly for new features you won’t probably use
You could also check out the Affinity suite of programs.
Nice, I won’t need to switch to other lemmy instance to visit this community anymore.
Actually fully swapped because of that
Finally.
No acknowledgement or sorry for their stupid garbage and if you try to mention it in their “community” you won’t have a good time, definitely not going to follow anything on that instance except the shitposts again but good to see that they correct a mistake at all I guess!
Good.
So they finally realized the person that convinced them to block the piracy subs was an idiot transphobic troll who was unhealthily obsessed with defending bungie, a faceless game corporation that needs no defense?
Shocker.
They state legal reasons, which makes sense. Better check things and be safe. Are there any more details etc. available about what you claim?
From a legal standpoint, I sort of get it. One risk of the fediverse is that data is cached locally from federated servers. That could put server owners in legal jeopardy for hosting illegal content. However, if the server is actively moderated and owners respond responsibly to take down requests, they should be okay - in the US at least, and assuming current protections for service providers remain intact.
I think a good option (if technically feasible) could be to have the choice to de-cache communities or servers that are questionable and make it so that data is transmitted live from the federated server when requested by a client. That would add load to both the local and federated servers though, especially if volume is high.
One risk of the fediverse is that data is cached locally from federated servers. That could put server owners in legal jeopardy for hosting illegal content.
This 100%. And not just piracy-related stuff.
Tbh, there have been some decisions by lemmy.world admins that i didn’t really support, but this one is understandable imo.
I wonder if the lemmy devs are aware of this and what steps can be taken to protect the instance owners from stuff in other instances that can get them in trouble.
Dbzer0 made that public right after the block occured, the person created a new acxount on lemmy.world with no posts just to retaliate. Not sure how much trueth is behind their new claims that they got multiple takedown requests but for some reason I was insulted for not knowing never mentioned or published, would certainly be a better reason but conaideringtheir past behaviour and complete lack of aknowledgment I am not too sure about that tbh.
Don’t try to tell them in their “community”, lemmy.world users are as nasty as always!
Still don’t trust them, they recently censored the fosscad community without announcement or warning.
That’s why there’re are different instances. No one can force you to join lemmy.world just like no one can force them to host content they don’t want to host.
Wheres it going?
For those that don’t know what “fosscad” is, it was a community where they were sharing 3D printing schematics for guns and other weapons. Which is an entirely different legal nightmare with different laws in different countries.
We’re back, baby!
Fuck Lemmy.world
I created this user in this instance because I knew this would eventually happen.
I’m happy with my choice.
it’s time to welcome these communities back again
That they’d be welcomed back?
Not my brightness moment.
That’s nice of them to walk it back. Definitely not something you’d see Reddit do
What’s reddit?
The new Digg
A lemmy clone.
A weird one. You create content and its shareholders buy new yachts.
Exploitative and at the same time very user unfriendly. Weird one indeed.
Yeah, it was a nice surprise for sure. I’m glad to have the lemmy.world crowd back, plenty of booty for all.
Glad to be back! I miss hearing about piracy news
Reckon they were also losing users cause of this decision.
Ye basically me, left right away to lemme.ee
Same here, now I only use .world only for .world communities, .ee for everything else.
Definitely. I migrated my account after they took an anti-piracy stance.
yeah I sure love lots of booty
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Dude, I’m at work. Put a NSFW on that thing.
“We love you… unless it’s not in our best interest to do so.”
And we Love every single downvote you got from these fine people, too ❤️
You’re acting like lemmy.world is ran by a corporation with plenty of power to fight back.
It’s a FOSS not-for-profit social media platform. I don’t also expect unconditional love. LMAO
That’s kind of how it should work everywhere though. Cher figured that out about Sonny eventually for instance.
Don’t you have a subreddit to try to be funny in?
Bro thinks hes superior to redditors 💀lemmy makes you so cool bro 💀
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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.
If anyone wants to apply as our fall guy hmu
We’ll see you battling takedown requests and not being paid to do so.
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They can’t touch my server its hosted on the moon
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What tf was woke about that or even better question what tf dose woke even mean by now?..
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That’s just shitty moderation and probably a overworked mod team, not sure what drug you got your hands on but I would kind of like to try it if you have any left!
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There is a difference betwen cencorship and moderation and one of them is a must sve or you end up with 4chan 2.0 but in this case the decition was bad the the reasoning even worse!
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Lemmy mods have a horrible and unthankful job, they get flooded with CSAM we never have to see and I didn’t experience any issues with mods so far, is it possible that the issue is related to the kind of stuff you post?
You left a “woke” instance for one run by communists?
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People who use the term “woke” pejoratively usually don’t think kindly of communists.
Damn, I want your drugs!
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This doesn’t sound like censorship, it sounds like they were getting legal threats directly levied at their volunteer team. I can understand the desire to protect yourself against getting sued for your (admittedly large) side project. It sounds like they are working on it in good faith though.
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Firstly, let me be clear. This is my opinion as someone who isn’t, and has never been involved with their instance in any capacity. My account is with pawb.social.
Posting legal letters may open them up to additional legal liability, and it is completely reasonable to let the community know what happened without sharing the actual letter.
Secondly, you’re putting words in my mouth. I am not saying they are censoring in good faith. I am saying the complete opposite, that they are reversing their stance in good faith. In other words, they are uncensoring content in good faith.
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if you think a cesspit like .world is “woke” what the hell are you?
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No anti-“woke” voices are even remotely approaching getting “censored” or “silenced”. If they are then why do I have to hear about them every fucking day?
On the contrary, if you want to hear from a good portion of the population about issues that affect them you need some aggressively anti-racist anti-sexist anti-queerphobic etc spaces or you won’t likely get the chance. Isn’t hearing what real marginalized people have to say about their own experiences a million times more important than some vague worry about crypto-fash#56637 getting to say their piece which has already been heard and generally decided to be socially harmful and, importantly, silencing to the people their racist, ___-phobic etc speech implies violence to? A chilling effect as you
enthusiasts call it.Isn’t freedom of speech more about an individual having the right to hear from many viewpoints, than it is about an individual having the right to say anything and everything, anywhere, any time, they so desire?
A libertarian then? What are your views on the age of consent?
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brace noise
You are entitled to your views, but please don’t turn this post into a political discussion. If you want to talk about your political opinions, there are plenty of communities for that topic. [email protected] is not one of those communities. Thanks and have a good day.
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Yes, so people in our community are aware of the ‘unremoval’, not to hate on lemmy.world. It’s a move in the right direction and personally I’m glad they took this step. Everyone is so tribal nowadays, just chill.
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Dbzer0 is one of the few I have seen making Lemmy better and better.
Aww shucks :)
It’s honestly the perfect use case for Lemmy too. It’s the kind of thing where decentralization is hugely helpful.
