Brickfrog

If you make a community don’t do it on lemmy.world, the admins at this instance have taken a hard stance against piracy related communities.

https://lemmy.world/post/13287681

https://lemmy.world/post/13320356

So to make it clear: people are allowed to make new piracy centric communities with the express rule to not post direct links to primarily providing copyright infringing material?

Nope, it’s more than that. Lemmy.world admins don’t want you to link to any websites that link to anything that might contain direct links or references to direct links. Strangely that means that linking to Google or Reddit would fail that test so links to those sites should be removed by lemmy.world admins too.

Per admin’s own post they removed !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

This community, however, contains a pinned Megathread post by a community moderator, which, through a few levels of a pastebin-like site, provides an aggregated overview of various sources of content. Some of these sources are entirely legal content, but it intentionally includes various other references, such as the website referred to from the CrackWatch community, which are primarily intended for copyright infringement.

The megathread post that admins are referring to contains links to a different website that contains links - that website is not on Lemmy at all. Lemmy.world admins took this removal action because the community contains a link to another site that may contain links lemmy.world admins don’t like.

They’ve always been pretty useless, people that actually care about that sort of thing would subscribe to a paid torrent friendly VPN.

PS - May want to check out the other community !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Yikes. I already unsubscribed from there, overall I get the vibe that the new mod is acting in bad faith & stirring up drama when none was needed. It’s also clear the new mod doesn’t particularly care for the existing community members, they are mainly just moderating for themselves it seems.

TBH someone could just create a lemmyapps @ any other Lemmy instance. I haven’t spent too much time to figure out if that already exists.

4 day old Lemmy account, seems like another coplover alt?

https://lemmy.world/post/9806730

Instead of having multiple dead communities you could just start posting in the earlier one(s).

The issue seems to stem from the fact that the blocked communities posted direct links to copyrighted content

Incorrect, !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a rule forbidding direct links to content. If those posts/comments exist mods there would simply remove them for breaking rules. Sort of seems like you’re making random assumptions.

That is correct. But Kbin also has issues just federating in general so I just expect kbin to be broken all around.

Figured I’d test it out just now by subscribing to some communities hosted there & my Lemmy instance couldn’t even find them let alone attempt to subscribe.