If that's the case, then they should be open and honest about it. We're back where we were before with the one-sided, spurious, and uncommunicated defederation decisions.

They should've explained that in the post if that was the case. Not make a pinned post that's locked with zero information. Also it would be a frivolous threat considering no website has ever had to remove internet archive links. If they want to threaten someone they have to threaten the Internet Archive not a tiny website like lemmy.world that is protected by section 230 and doesnt host any copyrighted material.

It’s entirely possible they got a threat letter from one or more publications about the topic and are doing it to avoid litigation.

I kinda get posting the entire article in the post body but not linking to archives. Publications should then litigate against those archives if they think that archiving is illegal. It's not like archiving services operate "in the shadows" or anything like that.

Given their history of freaking out, breaking things, then weeks later totally reversing their decision... it's clear that lemmy.world is not run by grown-ass adults. They drama freakout over way too much stuff.

They probably got a YMCA request or whatever that's called 😉

Surely if that were the case they would let their user know right? If you aren't open about the reasons, you are shit and should be defederated by everyone immediately.