cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/114721
My humble takes on the most popular Lemmy instances, or "how to piss off the whole Fediverse with a single meme".
Here are the links to each one of the mentioned instances:
Far Left Centre Left Centre Right Far Right Lemmygrad Exploding Heads Hexbear Lemmy.ml Lemmy.world Beehaw Pricefield Lemmy Based Count sh.itjust.works Blåhaj Lemmy Divisions by zero Lemmy NSFW Hack Liberty
The thing is that those communities weren't distributing pirated content. The were discussing priacy which is perfectly legal no mater how you stretch the law. Also the legal argument is bogus anyways considering division by zero, the instance that hosts that priacy community and sever others like it, is hosted in Germany which is among the countries with the harshest anti-piracy laws. It's not like it's some back alley dark web instance. If they were doing anything remotely illegal piracy wise the German government would have shut them down immediately. The only real reason for blocking those communities is a moral one and the anti piracy moral stance does strike me as slightly auth-right.
The difference between what you described and what I described is moderation and rules. It's just risk and risk level that the volunteers who run the instance are willing to put up with.
Have you considered creating your own instance? If you aren't in the US this might be easier for you to take on this risk than say US admins.
And if blocking is the concern, just get an account on the priacy instance! Easy peasy.