Might be worth remembering here that Lemmy instances, including .world are hosted by regular people. Not massive multinational companies worth billions who can engage the best legal talent around.

If Hollywood comes after a Lemmy instance, Holywood have a huge legal team and endless money. The Lemmy instance has some guy. They could quite literally destroy a persons life. With that in mind, I don’t blame any instance owners for erring on the side of taking a stance that won’t put them in the legal firing line.

Given lemmy.world’s uptime vs how well pirates keep torrent seeds up, I’d be surprised if anyone in that community actually uses lemmy.world as a primary instance lmao

Well there’s a “darkweb version of Reddit” called DREAD But then again we all know how most people are “Afraid” of the DarkWeb because of media propaganda. Additionally, you’ll have to endure reading DREAD while it’s in light-mode (if you use the “Safest” setting in TOR)

Wtf dbzero was a huge proponent of the fediverse and has been a part of the recent swell in users. I don’t agree with this decision at all

Why would lemmy world do this?

I’ve never pirated anything made by a giant mega-corporation! That would be wrong and immoral!

Good ridance! piracy jeopardizes the stability of !Lemmy.world If you want to be a pirate, do stupid illegal shit fine, but don’t drag everyone else with you

Itt: children crying that something got blocked. They also don’t know how lemmy works if they just bitch about where it’s hosted.

Lemmy is mirrored with all federated instances

Situations like these are the strength of the fediverse. Move your account to an instance that shares your values or doesn’t care about stuff like this.

Maybe you shouldn’t even have had your account on the largest server to begin with?

Edit: Didn’t mean to ridicule any of you all. I based my comment on my experience when I signed up. At that time there were plenty of instances to pick from and getting approved at my instance of choice was very quick. My bad.