[email protected] has also been blocked from lemmy.world.

edit:

Lemmy.world has released an official response.

  • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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    I mentioned earlier or elsewhere on this thread that right now, the narrative that I’m aware of is as follows:

    Lemmy.world users: just vibing, doing their thing

    Concern troll: comes in with a freshly created account to pearl-clutch about scary illegal things

    Lemmy.world users: hahaha look at this loser downvotes them to oblivion, resumes vibing

    Lemmy.world Admins: Piracy?! OMG that’s ILLEGAL, thank goodness someone pointed this out to us

    If they had an existing stance on piracy, they should have been already enforcing it. Then it wouldn’t look like they were successfully spurred into action by a bad-faith actor.

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      That narrative appears to be correct, although at the end I think it may have been more like “You know, now that this asshole mentions it, maybe we shouldn’t host stuff from these piracy communities as Lemmy’s largest instance. That might create problems for us down the road.”

      They definitely should have been more transparent about why they chose to do it at this particular time.

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        “You know, now that this asshole mentions it, maybe we shouldn’t host stuff from these piracy communities as Lemmy’s largest instance. That might create problems for us down the road.”

        I’m almost certain that’s what actually went down, but I’m explicitly referring to the issue of people’s perception.