This is what I like to see. Not just heels digging in, but explanations as to why, the follow-ups, the investigation of options and follow through. Thanks for the transparency. Piracy has and won’t ever go away. I used to pirate due to lack of money and resources. When I had those I went legit. When legit sources started turning into:

• monthly subscriptions for everything
• when legit sources suddenly delete or remove content from their systems (to avoid paying taxes?)
• when the rates go up for everything (internet access AND streaming services)
• now ads in your paid services unless you pay more (Amazon)
• Plex trying to go legit and police where and how people run their private streaming, fucking over license holders who built the financial footing they could stand on in the first place. Cool.

You can’t rely on any shit from these services, except for one shit… enshittification.

I don’t want to sound negative, but as a consumer, it’s been nothing but ads rammed down our throats from everywhere we go and look. They lie, they change rates, they shrinkflate, while their pockets get bigger. Long live piracy.

piracy has been removed again

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!

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.

Never should have blocked them in the first place.

Two out of these three links are broken, any idea what happened?

The error page says "The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error"

Nice.

I hope the shrooms community can also be unbanned.

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.

Why can't i follow this on lemmy.world instance?

Great news mateys!

Dbzer0 is my home for a reason

Best placr on lemmy <3

This is why lemmy is already better than Reddit. Thanks for being transparent and following through.

This was the right move.

This is amazing! You love to see it!

You guys rock. I fucking love lemmy 🐭

I think this is the mark of a decent admin team, the ability to re-evaluate a decision based on new or better data. I'm more inclined to stick with lemmy.world in the future, even through decisions I don't necessarily agree with .

Hey that's great, good job! I'm so unused to any disappointing decision being reversed, this really is an amazing site.

Good Communication is the key for everything

These posts reassure me that I chose the right instance. Thank you!

Mildly irritating that I've got to manually block those communities... but it's whatever

Fuck the pirates.

To all the people saying "too late, I already switched": why bother commenting?

I have love/hate relationship with piracy. I love doing it but hate when it's done with my products.