The largest piracy community is hosted over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
lemmy.world has blocked it. It appears to have also blocked !piracy@lemmy.ml.
If this is a problem for you, I'd suggest migrating accounts using LASIM to an instance that doesn't block it (such as lemm.ee).
edit:
An official announcement has been made:
I get it cuz corpos be sue happy lately but at least it shows the Federation's strength: simply having another account routes around the problem.
If this was reddit it'd be gone for good.
But here it's just a mild inconvenience.
I'm really not a fan of the lw admins just blocking communities. It's not the first time either. It's even worse than defederating, because there's no record of it.
I signed up to lw on its almost first day, but with some of these policies, and constant downtimes, looks like I'll be moving. It's a bummer I've created all the communities here before lw became so big.
Well, lemmy.world has shown their hand. They don't seem to have any consistent defederaion or content policy other than "whatever they feel like."
Abandoning my lw account and switching to lemm.ee now.
About lemm.ee . . . it's a great instance, no doubt, but maybe not the safe haven you think it is. The rules there leave the option of blocking "illegal content" and users/instances that post it wide open.
Excerpted from the Administration and federation policy on lemm.ee (the bold is their own):
Our rules apply even when you’re posting in a community on another instance. For example, this means that you’re not allowed to post advertisement spam using your lemm.ee account on any other instance (even if that other instance has no rules).
Admins:
Purge illegal content from lemm.ee
Ban lemm.ee users who break our rules on other instances
I don't like to piss in other peoples' Wheaties, just trying to save you and others some trouble. If you're looking to change to a piracy-friendly instance that will remain so regardless of how "illegal content" is defined at any particular moment, lemm.ee might not be it.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding this, but there’s nothing stopping anyone from having logins in either place. Using Voyager, for instance, I can have multiple logins on multiple servers with the same app.
It's annoying having to create logins on multiple instances. I always forget passwords and have to remember which servers i have accounts.
For example i had an account on one of the "lemmy. something" instance, but they defederated from shit.justworks so i created an account there. I changed phone and i relogged in from shitjjustworks but forgot what was my other login. And now do i have to create a new one to access the piracy one?
I wish there was one Lenny instance i could create an access and have access to the entirety of lemmy, without having to bother
First off, you should be using a password manager. This is probably a good opportunity to get into the habit.
I wish there was one Lenny instance i could create an access and have access to the entirety of lemmy, without having to bother
Any small instance will probably never be defederated by anybody else unless they're focused on something controversial.
Together with their recent removal of a community focused on shrooms, lemmy.world is starting to seem excessively puritanical for my tastes.
It’s a volunteer ran instance and the first rule is no illegal content.
Go find a different instance if you’re so butthurt.
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com does not have illegal content
Checked the stickied post and it is full with links to various piracy sites. This is like when trackers use "We are not sharing files, just links" defense.