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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.
In short, the ones left in r/piracy in reddit now are the leechers and freeloaders.
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.
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.
Fucking same. I hope someone recognizes their scab usernames and kicks them out of private pirate communities because such people are legit a massive opsec hole. But who am i kidding there noobs are probably just leeching off pirate bay only
They were happy to come in and get everything for free from us, now that they are inconvenienced by a decade of content production/moderation being screwed over, they don't care at all.
yeah... since the reddit clown debucle place turned into bootlicker central
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.
they're the folks who hit n run anyway. I guarantee not one of those bootlickers is seeding
If you've seen the questions they ask, and the answers people give.
Nowadays they're asking the very same question (which is “why the fuck are those morons still protesting against Reddit? They've done nothing wrong!”) - without searching - every while and then. And it actually violates the latest rule of “only sexy pirate John Oliver artwork may be posted”. ;)
I mean r/piracy is running on borrowed time, might as well use its last moments as a redirect.
r/piracy is probably on borrowed time. Might as well return it to normal and wait for it to inevitably be banned. By then, Lemmy should hopefully be more polished.
To be very blunt, it's best to leave Reddit. Within a year or two, discussing piracy itself would be banned there.
Yarrr. Even pirates have principles.
At this point I no longer care. I yet haven’t uninstalled Apollo and Boost out of respect for the developers but haven’t used them in 3 weeks. Come the 30th I will uninstall them and that is it. I will continue tu use Reddit as a search clutch while it works but will only get my fix of news either here or via rss feed as I used to do prior to Reddit.
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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.
It makes me glad I jumped ship, I don't want to be on the same deck as those bootlickers
I don‘t even think it‘s worth it for me to go and vote, just gives spez a click he doesn‘t deserve. Maybe best for me to leave it up to those who still give a shit about Reddit to decide what they want to do with their platform. As long as this instance is up, I‘m good! Ty db0!
The comments are spicy, the mods are hated there.
It's because the people who agree with us have already moved here.
Exactly. I was active in the sub for a few days after the move, inviting them to Lemmy, but found it exhausting. Though it did help those confused it seems.
I'm happy here; things will only get better when Sync for Lemmy and Memmy fully release.
I would say let the people who want to stay on reddit have it. This protest was the best thing that could have happened to /r/piracy, because now there is this place with 17k subscribers. I know there was another backup before this, but I don't think it was this popular. And if reddit will go public there is a good chance that that subreddit will be banned or quarantined and at that point it would have been hard to spread information about something like this place.
r/piracy is living on borrowed time. Let’s leave on our own terms for once!
Disappointing that 2/3 of the remaining users seem to vote for reopening.
The people that are most in favor of closing have left for alternatives (like Lemmy)
So disappointed at the poll results
Hell yeah, it got alot of people to Lemmy.
I'm very curious how reddit will handle it; they would probably hesitate openly supporting a piracy sub by putting in new mods
Can someone relay the outcome of the poll? I can't see it without an account and without voting
2k to stop, 1.1k to keep protesting
Let them be responsible for keeping it running. We have a good community here.
Right on! The crew that are adventurous enough to switch over to Lemmy are probably going to have fewer beginner type issues.
Last I checked, the majority that are still on Reddit are voting to give up
Why did they create a poll that is only accecible through new.reddit.com or the official app?? Of course it will be in favour of giving up 🤦🏻♂️
Voting with two comments as done previously is supported by all clients..
Edit: Statement from an official mod (old), they're internally discussing about an official second post that is also accecible through old reddit
Every feature in the last half a decade had been exclusive to newReddit, Polls were the only one I would notice, but RES would put it in a pocket link anyway.
Pirates don't protest when the ship is sinking. They commandeer another ship and use that one.
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.
I say stay closed. Keep up the protest!
I don't care because I don't even use reddit
Yes!!! I got lemmy becausd of subs still protesting!! Keep it downnnnn
I think people on r/piracy need to see the writing on the wall. Reddit is getting rid of 3rd party clients, is obviously not happy with large subs swapping to NSFW content and is trying to push for things to be as advertiser friendly as possible
At some point they're going to go after piracy subs more aggressively which is probably why it's better to make the switch earlier rather than later
I see a lot of comments there saying when that happens "they'll just make a new sub" missing the fact once Reddit starts banning piracy users/subs the new ones that spring up in its place will only last a week or two before being banned again