@fediblock account of mastodon is shuttering operations due to their instance being silenced by mastodon.art. (artisan.chat)
This is my best summary of this situation, as I understood it as someone from the outside looking in....
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This is my best summary of this situation, as I understood it as someone from the outside looking in....
A few days ago, Beehaw posted an announcement in their Chat community about the challenges of content moderation and the possibility of leaving Lemmy. That post was eventually locked....
When trying to open the site it reads the message: “Hey, I apologize but for the time being this instance must go down. I cannot deal with two instances at once during the ongoing issues with lemmy and people spamming illegal content into the federation. I don’t know when or if this instance will be back, but I will try my...
!thankthepolice...
They also shut down registration...
And nothing of value was lost!
Hexbear response
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3250365...
kbin dev responds again...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3191712...
After a thread was made in !support asking to defederate from lemmy.dbzer0.com for “the facilitation of piracy, and copyright infringement in general which is illegal”, the admins of lemmy.world deleted it prompting discussions on https://lemmy.world/post/3182834 and https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2095345.
Cross-posted from !waveform...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2508036...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2433349...
Trying to follow everything is, as always, tricky without the ability to really search for stuff on Mastodon....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2167629...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2118258...
Note: It would be best not to visit the instance for the time being until the issue is resolved....
They've been very cagey about their reasons, so naturally the comments are split between making the worst/most hilarious assumptions, making jokes, and actual helpful advice.