It's weird seeing otherwise normal working class people rush to defend admins, moderators, governments and authorities all the time in situations like this. I'm imagining some college kids working at starbucks or grocery stores picking up their phone in between customers posting replies championing copyright law. It's embarrassing

Oh wow... They were a big reason I made a Lemmy account at all.

Ridiculous. My alt has already become my main due to the outages. Now I’m never going back.

Hah, just joined that yesterday.

Guess I should get the blood flowing on my accounts on some other instances.

And here I am.

So Harbour do we sail to now?

What the heck?

Seems like my backup account is about to be my main account after all LMAO.

For legal reasons? Isn't lemmy.world hosted somewhere else but the USA?

This is bullshit honestly, I hope they back up from this decision.... Unlike Beehaw defederating from others because of light reasons.

It was inevitable and it's not their fault. Because of how the Fediverse works it means they're storing all content from those communities on their servers too. This means they're storing piracy content and can be subject to a takedown.

We knew larger instances would defederate from piracy communities at some point, don't take it out on the admins.

At the moment clicking on the links of the defedereted instances opens the instance in the browser.

I hope clients/apps like Sync/Connect/Summit/Infinity etc give us the feature to browse these defedereted instances even if we logged into lemmy.world

I know you can't post/comment/save, but for many, ability to browse would be enough.

A toggle in the settings for this feature would be enough.

Thanks for posting this so I knew to subscribe to the community on a different instance!

Nice. It was inevitable. A general lemmy instance needs to protect itself.

Come on over to our canadian instance at lemmy.ca We accept everybody and are kind with everyone!