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.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      121·
      8 months ago

      Yiffit.net, ani.social, and lemmynsfw.com. Those are the main defederations that I think are a little harsh.

      Aside from those, most of the other blocked instances are pretty egregious (mostly pedophilia and alt-right) and SJW has blocked many of the same ones.

      The only major server with less defederation is Lemm.ee.

        • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          61·
          8 months ago

          Idk about ani.social but the other two are. Ani.social has a general anime discussion community that was created as a replacement for the anime community on lemmy.ml and has rapidly surpassed it in activity. You’re not allowed to link !anime@ani.social on lemmy.ml either.

          Lemmy.ml admins would argue they host loli/pedo content, but ani.social would argue it’s just mainstream anime content and it’s part of the genre. I don’t really know more than that, but I think it’s a bit unfair to describe the whole ani.social server as being used for porn.

        • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
          51·
          8 months ago

          ani social was anime related, but the admins banned it because they dont really like anime and just tag reasons for censorship as loli, without evidence of it. I dont even actively contribute to the anime community, but was the driving reason why i moved from ml to zip. didnt want to have to deal with unsubstantial censorship with an actual valid reason.

          • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            8 months ago

            On the other hand, I really would not be surprised if they did have banworthy content on there.

            • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
              6·
              8 months ago

              im not doubting the possibility, but not to even provide evidence to the servers admins is a red flag on pushing the ml dev/admins agendas without being transparent about it.

              without a level of transparency, the same reason can be used to unjustfully ban anything.

                • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  2·
                  8 months ago

                  not liking something enough that you will on bias remove things. In this case, it was anime, but it could basically be applied to any viewpoints said admin would have then if they were that quick to react to just anime. It’s the action and how it was handled and less the topic.

            • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
              4·
              8 months ago

              we don’t. i know the anime community on the internet doesn’t have a good reputation but it’s different here. @hitagi@ani.social makes sure of that.

    • AceCephalon@pawb.socialEnglish
      41·
      8 months ago

      Hi, here’s your pretty much useless furry check.

      Double meaning entirely intentional, because funny.