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  • While it is true they are not directly responsible for these communities, they are linking to them through federation. As others have mentioned, lemmy.world is hosted in Germany where laws are stricter around linking to potentially illegal activities. They don’t have the legal team available to them that Reddit do so obviously they want to protect themselves. If it’s a problem to you, sign up with an instance that doesn’t block that type of content.



  • I suspect this won’t be a popular opinion, but it seems strange to me that a lot of people are making a fuss about lemmy.world blocking communities that literally advocate for illegal practices. If you disagree with lemmy.world blocking piracy communities, where should they draw the line? Allow literally any community to be created irrespective of the legality of what its advocating for? I would presume (and hope) that you wouldn’t have a problem with lemmy.world blocking CP communities for example?

    The Fediverse can’t function as a free-for-all. It has to have rules, and instances have to be able to police those rules for the betterment of the whole.