TLDR is that the person who removed the community is fairly new to the mod team and didn't realize there was a bit of a history to this situation. Also, looks like they are sticking with the decision this time around though.

Please don't harass the lemmy.world admins/mods though - if you don't like the situation you are free to register here or on another instance. And if you aren't a lemmy.world user, then this doesn't affect you at all.

I'm proud of our community here, and it's their loss, not ours! pirate captain giving the thumbs up

updated the link

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 78 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The translation is, "It wasn't us don't get angry, but also it kind of was one of us and also we are sticking by the decision so it may as well have been us." I don't really see that it matters if the story is true - in the best possible case they're just saying that they don't have a way of setting policies and having those policies be followed.

If we've learned anything from centralised platforms it's that size doesn't protect platforms from the consequences of making bad decisions.

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[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 176 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (21 children)

Why are people joining .world to begin with? The entire point of this is to decentralize. Joining the by far largest instance beats the entire purpose.

Join smaller ones like lemmy.one, lemmy.club, lemmings.world, lemmy.zip etc. We might need to start specifically recommending against .world and for general purpose instances like those.

Also, funny how even reddit allows r/Piracy but not .world lol

[–] Blaze@dormi.zone 93 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sync had Lemmy.world as the default instance to register a new account (might still be the case, I'm not sure). One of the factors for sure.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 91 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So does Voyager, Raccoon, and Eternity. Everything is just defaulting to it and it's infuriating.

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[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The dev really needs to change that then.

Perhaps have a system of selecting randomly from a set of hand-picked general purpose instances at sign-up, where having less people gives it a higher chance of being picked (if it's of at least a certain size of course, to prevent spam etc)

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[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 66 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why are people joining .world to begin with?

Because how it works when you first join is very confusing, and why you would choose any particular server is not clear at all.

Also, people want to join something that is bigger and more active because it feels like it would be better (more stable, more content, etc.)

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[–] sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 55 points 8 months ago

Because they have no basis on which to decide where to go. It's like buying toothpaste but there are hundreds of options, none of which you know anything about, so you get whichever seems most popular. It minimises the risk of ending up with something which is unpopular for good reasons.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Joining the by far largest instance beats the entire purpose.

There's kind of a tension here between Lemmy's design and what makes most people join social media websites. Most people want the biggest, most centralized website.

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[–] gianni@lemmy.ml 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy.world is also notoriously mismanaged and has had dubious privacy issues in the past, such as their Discord situation regarding user messages

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

Because they actually just want to still be on reddit.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago (17 children)

If you join a small instance, the chances are higher that it will a) be poorly maintained and b) fold quicker, forcing you to find another instance to join and re-subscribe to all your communities.

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[–] CapitanStrider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Luckily it doesn't affect anything beyond people who insist on using only one instances (world). Glad to have dbzer0 around.

[–] fuwa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I have four accounts on the four instances that host communities I am interested in.

It's a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised, but I guess that's the only way federation can really work in practice (especially considering when an instance is blocked user on the blocker side just continue to see it frozen in time, with no warning as to what's going on)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago

It’s a mild pain and definitely not what we were promised

I think this is precisely what the ActivityPub model of federation promised, actually 😅

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[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 78 points 8 months ago (13 children)

.world is just the worst parts of Reddit. Even fucking Reddit hasn't banned r/Piracy (yet)

[–] Jennykichu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 8 months ago

Most of the "communities" are just endless meme reposts like reddit,

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

The speed that this happened suggests they might have gotten spooked by something. Put down the pitchforks mates and give them a chance to explain first.

EDIT: Welp, I expected an explanation by now...

EDIT2: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/16795373

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If there's anything they should be spooked by, it's the pitchforks!

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[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't you guys have an admin chat group. Or at least you guys would have some way of keeping in touch since this has happened before.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We do, in fact. They never gave a heads-up, and none has responded until now. I found about this from this post

[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 8 months ago

That's unfortunate.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Well at least they honored their commitments /s

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[–] Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If any admins of lemmy.world are around, I created !westcoastedm@lemmy.dbzer0.com for the explicit reason of sharing copyright protected music. Can you ban it too? Wouldn't want to get you guys in trouble with mommy and daddy.

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 21 points 8 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !westcoastedm@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

average lemmy.world moment

being the biggest has it's problems

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[–] Yor@hexbear.net 51 points 8 months ago

Absolute joke instance lmao.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 49 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I moved to lemm.ee from .world the last time they banned these communities, as a momentarily fix, never cared to look back as here was better managed, no censorship, quicker updates and no noticeable downtimes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Sigh.

On the up side, if anyone wants in, they are free to create accounts on other instances

[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The part that annoys me is that this was done silently even though last time they said they would ask their users. Hopefully it was just an admin that didn't get the last memo.

Edit: the community -> their users

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[–] Blaze@dormi.zone 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, especially with 0.19 that allows you to migrate your subs and block lists in two clicks

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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Lemmy.world is the stupidest instance around

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. In my opinion, it's called lemmy.world but it's too US centric to have the .world domain.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

A few of the bigger instances have been very open about the fact that they're anti-piracy, anti-porn, etc and removing this community is par for the course with such a stance.

What does that mean for the average user? It means there's more incentive to move to better instances. It's when instances have such a monopoly on users and communities that people should not only move, but advocate for other people moving to smaller instances.

Also a major benefit of not being federated by large instances is that there's less surface area for search engines and thus resources last longer.

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[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 35 points 8 months ago

Would be a good time to finally leave .world behind. That instance is way too big

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Another reason why I like Fediverse

If Lemmy.world would have full control over it, this community would just get banned, but there's more and it is still accessable from all other places

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[–] somethingchameleon@lemmy.ca 30 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I just left lemmy.world for lemmy.ca

Corporate cucks and their censors can go fuck themselves.

I'm done with that shit.

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[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hey it got me to switch to dbzer0!

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[–] Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

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