To be very blunt, it's best to leave Reddit. Within a year or two, discussing piracy itself would be banned there.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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Censorship will only get worse on Reddit. No reason to stay there.
I am really disappointed in the current Reddit r/Piracy community. Reddit is horrendous, but seems like that community is extremely ignorant about the actual condition. They don't deserve any of the good things.
This could be a blessing in disguise, I'd much rather be with more savvy people.
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Pirates don't protest when the ship is sinking. They commandeer another ship and use that one.
It's really weird to see a subreddit devoted to piracy full of people who really, really don't like the idea of sticking it to this company.
Don't expect all pirates to be 'against the man', some are just lazy gits who don't wanna spend money (not that there's anything wrong with that) and don't give much of a damn otherwise about 'the other shit'.
I'm 100% on board with the protest, and I'm 100% on board with /r/piracy just dying if for no other reason than just because Reddit is the worst fucking place to deal with piracy, especially with the times they threatened to nuke the sub in the past, double-especially with that time the mods had to wipe out pretty much the entire history of the subreddit in order to prevent it from being shut down.
the thing is that db0 (the previous top mod) should have made it clear that each post contained a bot autobot that told us to go to lemmy the main forum and that r/piracy is temporary.. This would probably make that subreddit close as soon as possible, which would be our first choice in the first place.
But neither db0, nor other mods are ready to leave that subreddit, they want r/piracy to continue. So that's why they are not linking to this site.
And I don't care honestly, I will as many of you also will do probably, will focus on my own needs, and if r/piracy isn't according to my needs I will leave. I mainly use it to get news about the piracy world to be honest.
Well, the sub had gone downhill recently anyway - endless memes or posts about 'what is seeding' 'what is a vpn' 'what is plex' or just idiots who got an ISP notice and think it means they are going to jail.
Come to think about it, third party apps was the reason the sub was tolerable for me because I could filter out posts flagged as humor.
/r/Piracy seems to be the only subreddit I've seen that is upset with the mods for the protest. Every other sub I've been in, anyone who says anything remotely negative about the protests is downvoted to oblivion (rightfully so in my opinion)
That's probably because everyone who left came here.
The protesting should go on, but it's 1.7k against 3.1k who want to open fully if I remember corrently.I bit the bullet and went into the poll comments as well. Clown comment section ~ 95%. I am sad and disgusted. I'm happy they are over there and not here. Ironically it convinced me to never step foot back in there.
That's the thing, all the people who are against the changes left Reddit so logically there's progressively less pro protest users and the ones left don't care about it and want to get back to normal.
My take, I think a piracy subreddit protesting is useless since were already on thin ice. Some people just want advice on any issues they are having and not many of them know about lemmy. If anyone will convince Reddit to change their API policy, it aint us. Let the normies get their questions answered and the news flowing.
I'm just surprised Reddit made the fuss to force r/piracy back open. I'm sure it was a generic "send messages to top X subs" but still.
well, of you mean shutting down the sub permenantly and convincing redditors to finally migrate then sure, otherwise its pointless
We had the sub shut down they demoded me to reopen it
make a post on r/piracy and make as much noise as possible, ruin the sub, dont give them the chance, go apeshit
I can't read comments over there anymore, they've become some of the biggest bootlickers on the site. Moving to Lemmy was a very effective way to filter out all the dipshits.
yeah... since the reddit clown debucle place turned into bootlicker central
funny how when the core posters shift, culture changes quickly