there is no defederation from “the piracy instance”. one or more communities have been removed from being accessible through lemmy.world due to piracy content, but the instance is not defederated. this means that other communities on that instance are still accessible and all users on that instance can still freely interact with lemmy.world communities and users.

288 of local users that are also subscribed to !world@lemmy.world blocked the bot, which is about 1.2%.

when it comes to the topic of lying, it seems more like a misunderstanding from what i’ve heard after these comments were written.