I see more and more (I assume young) people that are bootlickers on r/piracy that I’m wondering the following.
IF, the real productive people, like the mods on that sub like db0 for example, come here, and there is still people there is it really important to have a sub there?
You see, if there is no productive conversation going on that sub, because the people who are productive came here, that sub will die off, but slowly.
At least we got rid of the bootlickers, right? Also, as always piracy always gets banned, if a site gets too big, too mainstream. r/piracy was mainstream. It’s better if that sub is the frontpage of piracy, but the real important things are happening here.
My request for the mods: Next time, when there is a need for an update of the megathread, don’t update there. No need. Just do it here. It helps lemmy more that way.
Reddit essentially wants to profit off of user-generated content, and once a critical mass of users decide to leave or just not make content it will stagnate and dwindle in popularity. People are acting as if this hasn’t happened before. It has: 2009-2010 was when an exodus of users from the past dominant social aggregator Digg formed a critical mass and happened upon Reddit.
The only important thing to these platforms like reddit and now lemmy is the content. If there is valuable info here, people will stay. If there isn’t then it will fade away.
R/piracy is dead to me. Let those barnacles cling to a sunken ship. Agreed. Don’t update anything over there. Real pirates will end up here one way or another.
eh, i’m actually an old man. i started pirating on local BBSs with my 33.6k modem. that’s longer than a lot of folks on r/piracy have probably been alive.
I don’t think it really matters in the long run. After that site goes public and they try and appeal to advertisers, that subreddit and NSFW in general will become unpalatable to advertisers for not being ‘brand safe’ regardless of legality of simple discussions. It might take a few years but migration is inevitable.
I don’t care anymore to be honest. r/piracy was not and will not be the frontpage of piracy, and neither c/piracy will be.
This is just for convenience and chatting, nothing more. If you need any information, you can find everything online (for example: best torrent website).
Again, if you forget about r/piracy, you would not need to worry about it being active or not. Just focus on making this place better.
Finally, it is obvious that people will split between reddit and lemmy, but it doesn’t matter much imo.
Don’t take my comment wrong, it is just my opinion, and I am sure many will differ from me.
Really doubt that, but what we can do, what they can’t do that there is to help people more in a direct way here. Questions, requests, we can give links encoded in base64 so basically help people out in a better way.
I doubt the new mods that are there want to help piracy related things there, because that wouldn’t help reddit admins.
Essentially mafias would run a mattress store which rarely would get much business as a front to explain where their money is coming from. Same with american sweet shops in the UK, some phone repair shops, car washes, etc
In germany it seems like a lot of döner"restaurants" and hairdressers are in cahoots with local gangs, I cant explain otherwise why there sometimes are three or more of them almost next to each other without going bankrupt. Like, in a street near my home there are three hairdressers all less than twenty meters from each other.
If you’re like me you don’t give a single shit about the whole Reddit - Lemmy discourse and you only care about freedom of speech and discussing online piracy, which is more than just free videogames.
I think it’s important to care about the fact that Reddit and especially it’s users are being squeezed dry by a profit-hungry CEO with a net worth of already more than 10 million. Reddit is becoming bastardized and that’s not a good thing, we should be talking about that and protesting that, and realistically just moving away from that.
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Reddit essentially wants to profit off of user-generated content, and once a critical mass of users decide to leave or just not make content it will stagnate and dwindle in popularity. People are acting as if this hasn’t happened before. It has: 2009-2010 was when an exodus of users from the past dominant social aggregator Digg formed a critical mass and happened upon Reddit.
The only important thing to these platforms like reddit and now lemmy is the content. If there is valuable info here, people will stay. If there isn’t then it will fade away.
I second the megathread part. Abandon the old one so if anyone needs updated guides they will have to come here.
R/piracy is dead to me. Let those barnacles cling to a sunken ship. Agreed. Don’t update anything over there. Real pirates will end up here one way or another.
Does that mean I’m a real pirate?!?
Pirates adapt or die. So at the very least you have increased your chances of survival. Don’t know if sharks will eat you though.
eh, i’m actually an old man. i started pirating on local BBSs with my 33.6k modem. that’s longer than a lot of folks on r/piracy have probably been alive.
That shit has only memes
I don’t think it really matters in the long run. After that site goes public and they try and appeal to advertisers, that subreddit and NSFW in general will become unpalatable to advertisers for not being ‘brand safe’ regardless of legality of simple discussions. It might take a few years but migration is inevitable.
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Just forget about reddit.
I don’t care anymore to be honest. r/piracy was not and will not be the frontpage of piracy, and neither c/piracy will be.
This is just for convenience and chatting, nothing more. If you need any information, you can find everything online (for example: best torrent website).
Again, if you forget about r/piracy, you would not need to worry about it being active or not. Just focus on making this place better.
Finally, it is obvious that people will split between reddit and lemmy, but it doesn’t matter much imo.
Don’t take my comment wrong, it is just my opinion, and I am sure many will differ from me.
Take care! 🏴☠️
Probably what will eventually happen is that content from here will get regularly reposted over there
Really doubt that, but what we can do, what they can’t do that there is to help people more in a direct way here. Questions, requests, we can give links encoded in base64 so basically help people out in a better way.
I doubt the new mods that are there want to help piracy related things there, because that wouldn’t help reddit admins.
I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community’s Mafia.
ELI5?
Essentially mafias would run a mattress store which rarely would get much business as a front to explain where their money is coming from. Same with american sweet shops in the UK, some phone repair shops, car washes, etc
Thanks for the explanation!
In germany it seems like a lot of döner"restaurants" and hairdressers are in cahoots with local gangs, I cant explain otherwise why there sometimes are three or more of them almost next to each other without going bankrupt. Like, in a street near my home there are three hairdressers all less than twenty meters from each other.
If you’re like me you don’t give a single shit about the whole Reddit - Lemmy discourse and you only care about freedom of speech and discussing online piracy, which is more than just free videogames.
Grow up, don’t pick fights and seed.
I think it’s important to care about the fact that Reddit and especially it’s users are being squeezed dry by a profit-hungry CEO with a net worth of already more than 10 million. Reddit is becoming bastardized and that’s not a good thing, we should be talking about that and protesting that, and realistically just moving away from that.
You are actually right.
Amazing idea, they should 100% do this.
True man I have come across more useful posts on lemmy in the past few days than reddit in a month or two.
I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community’s Mafia.
Amazing idea, they should 100% do this.