Ruud, the main admin, is in the Netherlands, the server is in Finland.
Ruud, the main admin, is in the Netherlands, the server is in Finland.
It’s not useless - they’re not trying to keep you from coming here, they’re trying to avoid liability for themselves.
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.
Why’s that?
It’s not really a Streisand effect, because .world doesn’t give a shit if you go to those places or not - they just don’t want the liability of you doing it from their instance.
No, that’s the removeds at lemmy.ml.
Yeah, I agree with that. It’s not the blocking that’s such an issue, it’s how they came to decide to do it. Definitely wasn’t handled well. I wonder if the (even more) downtime they’ve been having recently is a result of more people being pissed about this move piling on to the DDOS attacks?
That’s true. The reasons given were unsatisfyingly vague.
Yeah, that was a dumb reason, I agree. But I also think it was inevitable with .world being the biggest instance. They’re the first place in Lemmy any corporation will go to if they wanna sue.
This sub disappeared from my subscriptions on my .world account, but it was a c/Mildly Infuriating post that tipped me off.
DDOS attacks working as intended.
We were notified through a c/Mildly Infuriating post. True pirates are used to having to make some effort to get their content!
Good to know just so I know to go to an instance that doesn’t block this community. I don’t blame .world for being careful. This is indeed the Fediverse working as intended.
Because the company with the servers in Finland is German.