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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:

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

here is the ted talk

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.