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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I hope it's some automated mistake that they'll fix soon. It's not the first time this kind of thing happens, and it's sad.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 years ago

Here’s the lemmy post on Element being removed and restored: https://lemmy.ml/post/51299

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Based on the YouTube bullshit that has been happening for years now, Google tends to not provide many appeal opportunities for their decisions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Google is mainly bots, human workers are really just a few. This is not to defend them, but when shit happens, they're always really late to notice, mainly because of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

google doesn't exactly have the best track record for these types of "mistakes", prime example being little "accidents" with firefox and other similar examples

this is not to say that automated accidents don't happen, but that now every time something like this happens people are much less likely to trust that it was an honest accident

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

That's for sure. I believe the last relevant accident was the removal of Terraria's developer YouTube account. No access to his emails either, so no way to reclaim anything back. Somehow I find it too big to be intentional, but who knows. And the situation for the dev must have been horrible anyway.