Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
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Personally I just don't like lemmy, but i'll stick to where the community goes. This instances are slow and don't always work well. Simple things like upvotes lag. Either way its splintering the community and that is a bad thing in the long run.
The sub is already open though and people are posting piracy related questions. I don't see why people are still bitching.
people are addicted to reddit and its going to take time for them to get off that drug. Having a robust, functional alternative would help with that. Lemmy needs work still to be that
I'd say after spending a few days getting to understand the place, finding suitable subreddit replacements and getting the buggy subscription process to work, it's now about 75% of the way there for me. The next 25% is gonna mainly be just bug fixes and incremental feature enhancements. Check out https://sub.rehab/ and https://browse.feddit.de/ for an easier way to locate communities rather than using the built in search, which is not very functional yet.
Wait for Sync for Lemmy and Memmy (Apollo inspired) to come out in a few weeks and this'll already be a better experience than reddit on mobile
The idea of the protest is to either forcibly reduce user interaction/retention on the site or raise awareness of the problems that the API changes will raise, spamming John Oliver in pirate clothing won't effectively achieve either.
I like the idea of r/theyknew which forces every post to have an image saying that reddit is killing 3rd party apps. But even that would be better in bigger subreddits which constantly gets r/all coverage.
The way r/piracy is "protesting", it's better to open away, it's not like Reddit wants copyright circumvention to be discussed in their website.
/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.
We have a limited ability to freely discuss piracy on mainstream social media, which Reddit now regrettably is. IMO piracy communities can probably only exist in decentralized social media anymore.
They should stop protesting and let the place rot, they're already on lemmy and officially moved there now. Best thing they could do is to lock the subreddit, point to lemmy, and keep it like that till admins feels like force-reopening an (illegal!) subreddit and appoint supermods that won't do anything with it. r/piracy is dead, long live c/piracy official lemmy community.
Go back to somewhere regulated or stay here and shape the community in any way we want? Seems like a no brainer.
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.
Surprisingly, the "stop protesting" is winning the vote.
yeah, but those are the ones left who want to remain on that platform. you can post more stuff here so they're missing out by not coming over here.
because idiots need somewhere to ask 'what exactly is seeding' for the 100th time
well, of you mean shutting down the sub permenantly and convincing redditors to finally migrate then sure, otherwise its pointless
Can someone relay the outcome of the vote? I can't see it without an account and without voting
Maintaining the protest has been losing for a while at around 1:2 ratio. Only ~3000 votes in total right now however.
currently at 1.2k voting to keep protesting and 2.2k voting to give up.
guess the ones left aren't savvy enough to understand "federation"... then again, it wouldn't surprise me at all if spez had employees with bots dedicated to spamming any protest-related polls either.
Please don't link to Reddit.
Fuck ye