This is what I like to see. Not just heels digging in, but explanations as to why, the follow-ups, the investigation of options and follow through. Thanks for the transparency. Piracy has and won’t ever go away. I used to pirate due to lack of money and resources. When I had those I went legit. When legit sources started turning into:

• monthly subscriptions for everything
• when legit sources suddenly delete or remove content from their systems (to avoid paying taxes?)
• when the rates go up for everything (internet access AND streaming services)
• now ads in your paid services unless you pay more (Amazon)
• Plex trying to go legit and police where and how people run their private streaming, fucking over license holders who built the financial footing they could stand on in the first place. Cool.

You can’t rely on any shit from these services, except for one shit… enshittification.

I don’t want to sound negative, but as a consumer, it’s been nothing but ads rammed down our throats from everywhere we go and look. They lie, they change rates, they shrinkflate, while their pockets get bigger. Long live piracy.

Yet another informative post, and a decision that takes some guts and you're willing to take on some extra work and risk in order to make the instance better

I didn't want to have to do this, but you've brought this upon yourself. You give me no choice but to... donate money to you which you so damn well deserve!

Let this be a reminder that actions have consequences!

I think this is the mark of a decent admin team, the ability to re-evaluate a decision based on new or better data. I'm more inclined to stick with lemmy.world in the future, even through decisions I don't necessarily agree with .

I'm glad you guys took a measured approach. This right here is the difference between a corporation and Lemmy. I can't imagine a for-profit reversing its decision in the interest of the community unless it affected their bottom line or stock price. Hats off to the admin team for working through all these complex issues.

Hey that's great, good job! I'm so unused to any disappointing decision being reversed, this really is an amazing site.

Now please unremove the shroom community as next priority. Empowering open minded people with the option and knowledge to heal themselves through the use of psychadelics (and other kinds of mushrooms that can potentially help fight diseases such as cancer) that they can grow themselves without big pharma and giving them a community to share their advice+experiences is the right thing to do.

Thank you for the very informative post. Your professional way of handling the issue, puts corporate professionals, "cough" Reddit "cough", look like the amateurs they really are

"Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it."

A lesson u/spez forgot.

As always, appreciate both the transparency and the hard work and effort to make sure you are doing what is best for the community even if it isn't always easy! ♥️

This is my first comment ever using this platform.

Glad I can use this as my main instance again. Love the transparency of the mod team even if I don't always agree with the decisions.

These posts reassure me that I chose the right instance. Thank you!

Good Communication is the key for everything

Thank you for doing all of this including writing this post. The haters are binary thinkers who can't be bothered with pesky things like "context" and "reality"

To all the people saying "too late, I already switched": why bother commenting?

Nice.

I hope the shrooms community can also be unbanned.

Great news mateys!

I thank you for the work put into reversing the block.

Excellent news. Respect.

This is why lemmy is already better than Reddit. Thanks for being transparent and following through.

Thank you for being willing to protect this service when necessary, and improve it when able.

Thank you for being so transparent with us.

Well damn, thanks for getting it done. Didn't think it would happen and I wasn't surprised you guys wanted to avoid the legal risk.

Great news!

Thank you a lot for the hard work and also for being introspective and finding flexible solutions.

Dbzer0 is my home for a reason

Best placr on lemmy <3

Do what you want because a pirate is free! You are a pirate!

Yar har fiddle dee dee Being a pirate is all right with me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ju_10NkGY

This was the right move.

This is amazing! You love to see it!

because we were already receiving takedown requests

How are you dealing with these now?

have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves

Is this just in relation to the attacks or also the content, can you share anything?

You guys rock. I fucking love lemmy 🐭

Finally I can talk about these John Meyer live bootlegs

Awesome

Awesome!