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  • molave@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    To be very blunt, it’s best to leave Reddit. Within a year or two, discussing piracy itself would be banned there.

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    Pirates don’t protest when the ship is sinking. They commandeer another ship and use that one.

  • Peruvia@lemmy.ml
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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.

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      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.

    • Reef@programming.dev
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      It makes me glad I jumped ship, I don’t want to be on the same deck as those bootlickers

  • Thoxy@lemmy.zip
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    I think we have to keep up the protest. Personally, I find Lemmy much better than Reddit. All that’s missing is for users to follow the movement, but that’s not going to happen.

  • 伯谅 LCw@programming.dev
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    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.

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        genuine question: is it fine to seed to only 0.5 ratio if I live in a developing country with limited internet, or should I still seed to 1 ratio?

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          If you can then yes, otherwise just seed to your heart content. Most people aren’t even seed. Or better, don’t seed already well-seeded torrents, seed torrent with few seeders

    • prettytrucknutz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      True, but piracy needs normies and new recruits to survive. The heyday of piracy was back when everyone and their mom was using limewire and the pirate bay.

    • ward2k@lemmy.world
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      I feel like 90% of the questions on there anyway are just pointless if people actually read the megathread

      “What is a good site for movies”, “how do I torrent”, “should I use a VPN” “help I’ve got a virus”

      All questions that get repeated daily

      • 伯谅 LCw@programming.dev
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        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”. ;)

  • Metaright@kbin.social
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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.

    • GeekFTW@kbin.social
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      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.

      • gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.

  • ward2k@lemmy.world
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    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

  • plexnose@geddit.social
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    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.

    • whatyousaidontwitter@lemm.ee
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      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.

  • Edgeburn02@lemmy.edgeburnmedia.com
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    /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)

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      thanks for making people aware of this. i’d already deleted my reddit account in 2021 or so; libreddit was my only interaction with reddit for more than a year even before I came to lemmy, so I don’t know if i’m even considered a “reddit refugee”, ha.

      it always surprises me how few people know about libreddit and teddit (its old reddit looking counterpart) even in places such as hwre

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        libreddit was my only interaction with reddit for more than a year even before I came to lemmy, so I don’t know if i’m even considered a “reddit refugee”, ha.

        I think you’re an expat.

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      Oh that is cool. I’ll have to use as from now on, shame can’t login to your account so you can have all your sub at

      EDIT: you can choose which subreddits to follow. Will be good to get off the addiction.

  • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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    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.