• cerevant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Remember that lemmy.world has to keep a copy of whatever content appears in a federated community on their servers, making them legally liable for the content. At least they just blocked the community instead of defederating.

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      1 year ago

      At least they just blocked the community instead of defederating

      Would you mind explaining the difference?

      • potat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Basically they blocked the communities but not the instances they were hosted on, so people on lemmy.world can still interact with posts and comments made by people like me

      • cerevant@lemmy.world
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        Defederating cuts off the whole instance. They just blocked those three piracy communities as far as I understand.