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

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    8 months ago

    Whether or not it’s moral or ethical is separate from it being legal, and it’s definitely illegal (in the US).

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      8 months ago

      But it’s not, they’re not doing actual piracy there, they’re talking about it, and that’s very much not illegal

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        8 months ago

        Tell that to the person I replied to, not me, because they didn’t say anything about talking about piracy.