Earlier, after review, we blocked and removed several communities that were providing assistance to access copyrighted/pirated material, which is currently not allowed per Rule #1 of our Code of Conduct. The communities that were removed due to this decision were:
We took this action to protect lemmy.world, lemmy.world’s users, and lemmy.world staff as the material posted in those communities could be problematic for us, because of potential legal issues around copyrighted material and services that provide access to or assistance in obtaining it.
This decision is about liability and does not mean we are otherwise hostile to any of these communities or their users. As the Lemmyverse grows and instances get big, precautions may happen. We will keep monitoring the situation closely, and if in the future we deem it safe, we would gladly reallow these communities.
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.
You should also remove the cached content, if possible. Also no idea about the downvotes… If you don’t like the decisions that an instance makes, go to another one. It’s that easy.
The problem is they just made this decision on a whim based on the request of a single individual with accounts on 9 different instances (5 of which are banned for being transphobic) and has a bine to pick with db0 because that insrance is one of the ones he was banned from.
As for the down votes, don’t worry about it, there’s no karma here. Say something dumb, get down voted move on. Post something dumb, get down voted, move on. As for why it’s being down voted I think was largely the lack of transparency from the admins on the decision. It really was a reddit quality move which is a reason why a lot of people came here. Now it’s happened another reddit move of, “oh we pinky promise to be more transparent in the future.” It’s just lip service now, future actions will show if they mean it.