This community got removed from lemmy.world (again) - Divisions by zero
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This is another post that alerted me of this. https://lemmy.world/post/13287681 [https://lemmy.world/post/13287681] And here is the modlog: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity [https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity]

This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      426·
      9 months ago

      Yeah people are really weird about this. They want a free distributed forum hosted by small admins, but don’t want those individuals to take basic legal precautions? Piracy might be moral, but it’s a liability which will absolutely impact the viability of servers in many places. Grow up.

    • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      9 months ago

      The Lemmy instance doesn’t actually host pirated content, does it? It’s just information about pirated content and where to find it, right? Who the fuck cares about this

        • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          73·
          9 months ago

          I guess the question is: if you host a public forum, are you liable for things posted on it, or on separate but linked forums?

            • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
              53·
              9 months ago

              Comments like this sound like the “they write it off on tax” comments, where there’s this assumption about how complex things must work, but it can’t work exactly that way otherwise we would see it happening all the time.

            • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              It doesn’t matter if you don’t have limitless money to pay lawyers

              Since anyone can spin up a Lemmy server, at some point a rich person/persons will do so, which makes this a relevant question to ask.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            I guess the question is: if you host a public forum, are you liable for things posted on it, or on separate but linked forums?

            I was thinking the same thing, as a legal question.

            In the Fediverse, who’s the source/target for the law to look at, the originator, or all the cached copies on other servers?

            Edit: Basically, what this comment describes…

            Then, who do you sue? The person downloading the product? The person hosting the product? The person providing a link to the hosted data? The person providing a platform for people to link things? The person who allows their platform to federate with another platform that does?

            If we’re talking about P2P sharing, then in a way no one is hosting the data.