This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:
The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.
I mean, it’s not on their server. It’s hosted on dbzer0.
deleted by creator
Oof, yeah that’s bad…
Neat. Has anyone brought this up to the devs here or on github before?
deleted by creator
you could safeguard against this on the client side by not loading images from untrusted sources. irc clients did this
Ayo what the fuck how’d you do that
deleted by creator
Got the state correct 👍
i really wish there were a way to disable images with some of these fancy lemmy clients for android. I’m not interested in any of them
deleted by creator
nice. yea it replaces your image with a link.
But of they federated they’ll be hosting a copy.
I guess the question is: if you host a public forum, are you liable for things posted on it, or on separate but linked forums?
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have limitless money to pay lawyers
Since anyone can spin up a Lemmy server, at some point a rich person/persons will do so, which makes this a relevant question to ask.
Comments like this sound like the “they write it off on tax” comments, where there’s this assumption about how complex things must work, but it can’t work exactly that way otherwise we would see it happening all the time.
I was thinking the same thing, as a legal question.
In the Fediverse, who’s the source/target for the law to look at, the originator, or all the cached copies on other servers?
Edit: Basically, what this comment describes…
Removed by mod