Hello World!
As we’ve all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced, were:
- !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com,
- !steamdeckpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com,
- !piracy@lemmy.ml, and their local counterparts as follow up actions.
In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn’t want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.
Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it’s time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!
We know it’s been a rough ride with everything, and we’d like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.
With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!
Lemmy.world Team
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Yet another informative post, and a decision that takes some guts and you're willing to take on some extra work and risk in order to make the instance better
I didn't want to have to do this, but you've brought this upon yourself. You give me no choice but to… donate money to you which you so damn well deserve!
Let this be a reminder that actions have consequences!
Let this be a reminder that actions have consequences!
WHEN WILL YOU LEARN… WHEN WILL YOU LEARN… THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CoNcEqUeNcEs
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
WHEN WILL YOU LEARN… WHEN WILL YOU LEARN… THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CoNcEqUeNcEs
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I'm glad you guys took a measured approach. This right here is the difference between a corporation and Lemmy. I can't imagine a for-profit reversing its decision in the interest of the community unless it affected their bottom line or stock price. Hats off to the admin team for working through all these complex issues.
Hey that's great, good job! I'm so unused to any disappointing decision being reversed, this really is an amazing site.
Now please unremove the shroom community as next priority. Empowering open minded people with the option and knowledge to heal themselves through the use of psychadelics (and other kinds of mushrooms that can potentially help fight diseases such as cancer) that they can grow themselves without big pharma and giving them a community to share their advice+experiences is the right thing to do.
Since its Lemmy world its a weird indeed. Mushrooms are not even illegal in like 1/3rd of the world countries and decriminalized/not enforced in the other 3rd. Pretty interesting wiki read actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_psilocybin_mushrooms
Any context why it was blocked?
There's been a few poisonings lately, including half a dozen people in Australia about 2 months back that may have contributed… orrrr it might just be US law and broad optics.
I'm not sure the mushrooms used in thr Australian case were magic mushrooms. That'd be more about mycology rather than magic mushrooms we're talking about. Either way banning doesn't make much sense.
correct, am Australian. The mushrooms are called death cap here which are poisonous. they were used in a mea and it's suspected to be a deliberate poisoning. nothing recreational or accidental here, just the same usual shit that can kill you in Australia :)
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Oh - they definitely weren't magic mushrooms, but people will definitely overlay the general danger of amateur mycology over the risk and (US) illegality over the magic mushrooms.
Next thing we should block any car community. Cars kill people.
Gee if only I knew a place where I could learn more about this.
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I spoke with 4 therapists about issues I had, they didn't help. Microdosing LSD for about a month did wonders though.
I can echo this statement for a couple people I know that found this to work for them too
They're really interesting substances with useful properties, but we know so little about them.
This is weird to me. What's the reasoning for that? We're people selling crap on there or something? If it's just discussion I really do not see the problem.
If you want people to take your hobby seriously, drop the cult language. Seriously, healing yourself? Fighting cancer?
Come on now, next you're going to try to sell me crystals that absorb bad vibes or something.
This reads as bait to me. You can see multiple peoples testimonies in the replies confirming that psychedelics succeeded in helping them or those they personally know, where repeated conventional therapy failed them. The long term repairing improvement of a persons mental and spiritual well-being also counts as 'healing' to me as well as many other people.
In the off chance you are genuinely interested in the 'helps fight disease such as cancer' claim, here is a ted talk by a professional mycologist. Its about mushrooms improving the human immune system. At the end he shares the very personal story of his elderly mother developing stage 4 breast cancer basically being told she was too old for conventional treatments and was done for. Only for her to make a full recovery after taking a few medications along with turkey tail mushrooms. You can skip to 9:00 to hear the story.
Fantastic Fungi is a good documentary on netflix if you would like to learn more, very well made and accessible to the common person IMO
Thats all I have to say. I hope you are open minded and learn something new if you decide to check out the ted talk and documentary. If you think its all snake oil BS anyways there probably isn't much I can say to sway your opinion. Hope you have a good one.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
My opposition was not in regards to the contents of what they said, but rather in how they said it.
Not a single person unaware of psychedelics would ever take that sort of language seriously. As I said, they need to drop the cult language, the anti-science language, and explain things in a way people would at least consider- much like you did.
Thank you for the very informative post. Your professional way of handling the issue, puts corporate professionals, "cough" Reddit "cough", look like the amateurs they really are
That's what I thought while reading this. After being on reddit for so long posts like these are such a breathe of fresh air. In my time on Reddit the trend was ALWAYS 1: bad changes 2: worse change 3: nothing, it just becomes the new normal then, if anything 4: even worse changes.
Blows my mind to see a site be cognizant of their users, listen to them and actually idk, work to fix things? Bravo.
You forgot the random instant site-wide permabans without explanation or possibility for appeal.
Wow, I had actually forgotten about those. Not to mention that every time I checked my inbox I was being blanket banned from a host of subs because I had accidentally commented to a no-no sub, or said something mildly controversial… I'm not even that controversial of a person haha but not fitting in perfectly and submitting to the echo chambers meant punishment… just so strange
This is my first comment ever using this platform.
Welcome aboard! 😎
@antidote101 @lwadmin Welcome💞
you want a brownie button?
What exactly do you think the upvote button is? You know brown is just a shade of orange.
Are those the little mini brownie things? If so, yes, that sounds delightful.
Good Communication is the key for everything
Nah man, tried this with my dog. He still humps the pizza delivery guy's leg
I thank you for the work put into reversing the block.
Love the username, such fond memories.
Aye matey, aye matey. 🏴☠️
Excellent news. Respect.
Thank you for doing all of this including writing this post. The haters are binary thinkers who can't be bothered with pesky things like "context" and "reality"
Nice.
I hope the shrooms community can also be unbanned.
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Thank you for being so transparent with us.
Well damn, thanks for getting it done. Didn't think it would happen and I wasn't surprised you guys wanted to avoid the legal risk.
Glad I can use this as my main instance again. Love the transparency of the mod team even if I don't always agree with the decisions.
We can't always please everyone. And sometimes we have to make decisions or do things we personally don't like or we would like to see differently but we have to think about both our team and our userbase.
But thank you for your trust and welcome back.
This is why lemmy is already better than Reddit. Thanks for being transparent and following through.
