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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.

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[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm. Interesting points.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesnt help that mod tools here are very anti-user. Not even in a hostile way, the tools just arent finished or even made yet, so its very hard for users to play by the rules or know when theyre punished.

Like how you need to scroll through the modlog to see if your post/comment was deleted, and if youre lucky they might include why. Or how unclear and obtuse it is to check the instance global rules which change when you visit other communities, who themselves have a different list of rules.

These probably all have solutions, but thats gonna take time to build. And moderation is probably gonna be kinda wild west-esque until they are running.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of why I’m reserving judgment is because everything is so very young still. It’ll take a lot of time and effort to develop it into something more mature.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats the same reason Im here. Learn the way this works while its developing, so if it evolves into a well developed community Ill already know my way around.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm also open to the idea that there's really no good social media, even when federated. We may still have to deal with hateful and insecure mods, for instance.