Since we are all pirates moving away from Lemmy I was thinking if another r/Megalinks style community could be made on Lemmy and survive? (Or pehaps already exists?)

For those that don’t know Reddit pirate history, r/megalinks was a sub where people shared links to megaupload usually for files for download. It was a very unique hub and usually had some rare stuff that downloaded quickly thanks to the uploaded service not being p2p. I actually still have a full back up of it that I’ll check for stuff I can’t find and they’ll still be working.

But as Reddit got bigger posts kept getting hit with takedown requests until Reddit itself got sick of it and banned the community. Eventually the community there made Snahp, which is very good but it’s private status makes it feel a bit small compared to the old megalinks sub in terms of available options.

Posting links is sort of a strange grey area, even more so than torrent hosting, But idk what the reality of having a community like that would be. Sure an instance owner can say “I won’t care” but if it gets too big and the MPAA starts getting pissy, it might not be worth it to them. But with Lemmy’s growth and services like Debrid existing now, it would be better than torrenting for the most part. (I also use UseNet yes, but it’s not great for old or aging content)

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It might be nice to have. If precautions are taken; it could even be a viable community. I certainly wouldn’t mind a place where I could search for newish files or make requests for specific older ones.

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