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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      Strafgesetzbuch section 86a

      Yes, they should defederate for another instance because they allow symbols banned by an authoritarian state, rather than worry about attracting the attention of United States federal authorities. Congrats, you win the person the year award… that I’d vote to lobotomize.

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        Should read the ToS of LW (your instance):

        The website and the agreement will be governed by and construed per the laws of the following countries and/or states:

        • The Netherlands
        • Republic of Finland
        • Federal Republic of Germany
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          You should prob look into the history of The Pirate Bay’s legal issues in the countries you mentioned