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Lemmy.world deleting posts with archive links and posts questioning the decision. (lemmy.ml)
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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!

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

I get the impression that one of the main goals of Lemmy World admins is simply to assert control over its users. Whether they realize this or not and are just doing habitually. There was a post awhile back about the feature of users being able to do instance blocking themselves and they were pretty against the idea of an instance that federates with everything in order for users to do their own moderation. As this would obviously take away their ability to control users.

In my opinion they are just bullies who have convinced themselves they are in the right.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

... because community mods will be forced to moderate comments and posts coming from all instances, which is unreasonable to expect from them. They wouldn't be able to ban anyone because they can just make a new account on some troll instance.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You are describing federation though which is what Lemmy is. If you want a centralized website this is not that.

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