Lemmy.world has somehow decided to become to extreme defenders of “copyright” and decided they will now delete posts that contain archive links in an absurd move that not even corporate websites like Reddit do. Archive links provide a service to provide access to an article long after it is deleted or changed.
They made this post and locked it immediately so no one can comment on how ridiculous it is and they’re deleting threads about the decision…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6711646
The LW admins have requested that communities remove any posts that include the entire article or archive links to articles.
A short summary is allowed, but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. This includes links to sites that rehost copyrighted articles for paywall sites.
If your post is removed for a rule 1 violation you can edit the post and let the moderators know the copyrighted material has been removed.
Thanks All!
Critical support for lemmy.world admins alienating their users by managing to be more fascist than Reddit admins.
Someone’s attempting to capitalize on federation…
It’s a real pity. Some of us use the archive links because modern websites ignore accessibility guidelines and create hostile UX. So many popups and animations and autoplay videos with sound.
While I understand their motives, the result is a move towards an internet that excludes people further
They’ve defederated from lemmygrad.ml: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2347489
Great news.
Yeah, for lemmygrad
Truly is, the amount of zionist bootlicking and call for extermination of Palestinians we see on lemmy sharply dropped overnight when we stopped seeing new .world posts.
go back to reddit dork
No idea what the deleted comment you replied to said, but I’m a big fan of bringing the word “dork” back!
My take is they are less defenders of copyright and are rather less interested in bearing the brunt of an infringement lawsuit caused by people posting content they do not have rights to.
Rule 1: “Do not post entire articles or archive links to copyrighted articles”
Also lemmy.world when creating a post: “Why not use one of these archive shortcuts?”
That’s built into lemmy itself. If they want to be drastic about it they could fork it out I guess.
That’s built into lemmy itself. If they want to be drastic about it they could fork it out I guess.
Instances running slightly patched versions of Lemmy is nothing uncommon.
This is the inevitable consequence of being the largest instance, you get the most scrutiny from copyright trolls.
From lemmy.world’s inception (and before), I along with many other Lemmy users have sang the chorus of: if you don’t like an instance’s policies, you can leave and join a separate instance!
That’s the whole point of a federated, de-centralized model.
A policy is built by informed consent. There has to be a process and a reasoning and human hands who can be held accountable when things aren’t done right. I don’t think any Fedi instances are doing “policy” by that definition. And that’s entirely because they don’t want their users/trolls to use/game the system, I believe.
To strengthen the power of the Fediverse, more self-hosted instances is the way.
This is a bad move that’s anti-community and user-hostile. Hopefully it also fucks over the monopoly they’ve been trying to get over communities. People need to stop defaulting to putting their communities under
.worldjurisdiction and use other, smaller, and more relevant instances instead.They’ve updated their ‘policy’, still with no accrual explanation that I can see:
The admin team updated the communities that they will allow archive links to be used.
lmao. Defederate immediately, just on principal. Let Lemmy.world know that once they stop being capitalist stoogies they can reapply for federation.
This will not go the way you think it will.
The link you posted is a post by a mod announcing that they will enforce the policy given to them by the LW admins.
From the modlog I can tell that (presumably) you posted a text post to !politics@lemmy.world about the policy that was then removed.
If you’re posting to !politics@lemmy.world, such posts would obviously be removed because that’s A. not on topic (that’d be a topic for !lemmyworld@lemmy.world. ) and B. not a link to an article. The latter is also the reason given for the removal.
Stirring up drama over absolutely nothing usually ends up hurting someone. Could you not?
