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To be very blunt, it’s best to leave Reddit. Within a year or two, discussing piracy itself would be banned there.
Censorship will only get worse on Reddit. No reason to stay there.
Pirates don’t protest when the ship is sinking. They commandeer another ship and use that one.
I say stay closed. Keep up the protest!
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.
It makes me glad I jumped ship, I don’t want to be on the same deck as those bootlickers
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.
Yes!!! I got lemmy becausd of subs still protesting!! Keep it downnnnn
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.
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.
This could be a blessing in disguise, I’d much rather be with more savvy people.
they’re the folks who hit n run anyway. I guarantee not one of those bootlickers is seeding
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?
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
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.
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
If you’ve seen the questions they ask, and the answers people give.
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”. ;)
Reddit is boring AF now. Damn. Lemmy is actually more fun now. Just waiting for the apps to get better and more colorful now.
Yeah im waiting for that
if you use Android, check Thunder app (not on play store). Download it directly from Github.
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
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.
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.
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.
In short, the ones left in r/piracy in reddit now are the leechers and freeloaders.
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.
r/piracy is probably on borrowed time. Might as well return it to normal and wait for it to inevitably be banned. By then, Lemmy should hopefully be more polished.
So disappointed at the poll results
/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.
And in addition, you can install an extension such as Libredirect that’ll automatically redirect Reddit links to mirror sites.
Thanks a bunch, I was going to do this on the pi-hole side lol
You’re welcome, happy if I could save you some time 😊
Great stuff, didn’t know that it aexisted thanks for sharing
Will this get broken with the API changes on July 1st?
There’s chances, yes… But the devs of Libreddit are trying to implement workarounds, like giving instance’s operators an option to add their own API key.
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
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.
Thanks for the tip.
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.
