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We should go and save the useful info to re-post it here, it's a good opportunity to migrate all the information.

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[–] nusirojonel 69 points 2 years ago

The newest post on /r/piracy gave "go wild posting links and tank this site" vibes.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That is very weird of reddit to force open a PIRACY subreddit of all things

[–] nusirojonel 29 points 2 years ago

They probably didn't directly target /r/piracy but blanket hit all subs of a certain size.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Moderation team being forced to moderate against their will? Would be a shame if people started posting site rule breaking content over there

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

Now theres an idea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you think that sort of engagement isn't exactly what reddit is trying to encourage lol

[–] theblueredditrefugee 3 points 2 years ago

oh yeah, reddit is going to love getting all those DMCA's. I should post a nintendo ROM repository!

[–] Lorez 2 points 2 years ago

forced to moderate against their will

How does one force unpaid jannies to keep working for free? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reddit staff wants to bring down stuff like piracy subs, they want you to break the rules en masse so they can shut it down. Sure we can say "oh boo hoo we have Lemmy" but how many people don't? How many people won't bother with Lemmy? How many don't know about it? How many people will DL from Steamunlocked? How many will torrent from the Bay using Bitlord? The Megatgread is still crucial info that needs to be accessible to as many people as possible

If you read the Megathread piracy will be second nature but if you don't and then get malware after malware, at some point you'll say "fuck it" and stop, which will deter a lot of people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy has the megathread and the rest can stay there at their own risk.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, I thought having more potential seeders (of good torrents) would be better than having less potential seeders. Maybe I was wrong in wanting information to be widely accessible

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

The path to the Megathread will always be available wherever it goes, but people need to act. Reddit is no longer safe to be a pirate in entrapment or otherwise (might be negligence). If you keep complaining and perpetuating the status quo then you can be dead sure the information will never move off Reddit, where you can give these snarky neckbeard responses instead of quality answers.

[–] theblueredditrefugee 1 points 2 years ago

And then your obscure torrents will be more likely to have 0 seeders

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's an awful lot of TERRBILE 'information' on there though. What we don't need are thousands of posts from idiots who don't know what a torrent is, what a seeder is, what ddl is, why they receieved a warning notice, or a those idiotic 'why I pirate' shitposts.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Why I pirate" was so annoying. It was like a lamp to the edgy moths who loved to bullshit how they're thieves and criminals and aren't afraid to admit it. Homie you're copying somebody else's copy of somebody else's copy of somebody else's copy of a bunch of files, you aren't slicing Spanish sailors' throats and plundering sugar, rum, food and drinking water from merchants and trading vessels

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. We objectively steal stuff (the question if it is morally correct is irrelevant) so why do we need to justify it? To ourselves?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

We don't steal, we copy stuff we shouldn't. Big difference. Both are bad but different

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is there a link to this community in there yet? I'm not adding any traffic to reddit to check it out lol

Really needs to be if not. I suspect it'd be a major way for people to find this comm; this is now the main hub after all

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s in the sidebar under “fallback” or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still under fallback huh? That's a shame

[–] Shamanalah 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Someone commented this place on the post about the subreddit reopening. That's how I got here. I backuped the megathread before realizing this community existed lol

[–] theblueredditrefugee 2 points 2 years ago

I only discovered lemmy because, during the blackout, r/piracy linked here lol. Very useful, glad they did because lemmy is so good

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now that most of r/Piracy seems to be on the fediverse now, maybe reddit's advertisers would like to know that they endorse digital piracy. Might fuck up their IPO.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

We need a home away from reddit for a long time. Always was scared of the ban hammer. Thank you Spez for giving us all the push we needed!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I expect magnet links, i expect direct links

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The humor / memes posts there are the most annoying. I hope we don't see such low effort posts here.

[–] theblueredditrefugee 10 points 2 years ago

Can we just have a separate community for piracy memes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Should be fine up until the point where lemmy takes off. Then the meme/shit-posts begin. Reddit was pretty on topic back in the day when it was smaller.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

the humor posts are my favorite tbh, but the guides n shit are also super cool

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

Shirking my responsibilities

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