It's why this blackout has been a blessing, since piracy days on reddit were numbered anyways. I'm glad we got to get our community elsewhere before being randomly banned before there was an opportunity to regroup.
Have had many lost communites like megaupload back in the day that reddit killed off. With how helpful the piracy community has been with stuff like the wiki Reddit would have set their eyes on us anyways in the long run.
Archive.org probably has backed up a lot of stuff. regardless, I'm kinda sad tho that I promised someone I'd send them a file but i procrastinated and this happened, so I can't find the original comment anymore rip
I agree fully except with the mirror aspect. Mirroring is what tends to cause the dissolution of alternatives like Lemmy. It makes it too convenient and a target by bigger powers. It is federated but that doesn't mean it's invincible. It would be smart to keep it separate and try to let it become its own thing. Grassroots promotion may be the way to go. I mean, I agree, mirroring would be nice and convenient, but we have to be smart and use tact as well.
We have something wonderful here. Let's keep it going long and strong! 😀
I am ready to leave reddit. Fuck you u/Spez
Hello everyone! This is my first Lemmy post. :)
I 100% support a permanent shutdown of r/Piracy, but at the same time, I think it would be very useful if the contents of r/Piracy were made available elsewhere for archival purposes. Could the sub be temporarily reopened in read-only mode to allow for it to be scraped? Or is it already available somewhere?
Awesome! Thank you!
We'll probably need more than one day if the archive includes all of the threads (which also include a lot of good information) and not just the wiki. There is this Reddit importer that can take post and comment data scraped from the Reddit API and import it into Lemmy, but because of the volume of data, it will take a while before the scraping is complete by July 1st.
I agree, r/piracy should not be added into Lemmy. It should be separate. Perhaps some kind of archive could be made at some point and made into a torrent or hosted somewhere. Restricted would probably be fine.
Glad to see that /r/piracy has some fucking balls. 48 hours won't do a damn thing. It makes me sad because I love Reddit. Always have, but this shriveled up dickbag, Spez, royally fucking over 3rd party devs by pricing out their apps and even removing the ability to have NSFW content be viewable on their apps is a royal slap in the face in the highest degree.
I understand that as a business you need to turn a profit (I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Capitalist), but completely pricing 3rd party devs out of the market and making mods (who are all VOLUNTEERS btw) use the bullshit, clunky ass first party modding tools aint it. I heard rumor that they would allow 3rd party modding tools and bots via LTT, but I trust nothing.
Reddit is nothing without the community. It was just a place to gather, to congregate and have a discussion.
That can move elsewhere. and reddit can be left to rot.
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
We will sail the ship to the next big community. I hope we have found a home here 🏴☠️
I was so sure it was just a matter of time before reddit nuked the subs anyways, glad we have somewhere else to meet
Sounds good to me. The people participating in piracy are the type to quickly adapt to changing technology. Let’s embrace this opportunity.
Ahoy to our new Ship!. fck you spez
That's the spirit buccaneer. There's always endless loot to go around and spirit to go with it.
I like that it is linked directly from the Private Community message on Reddit. I wish more subreddit picked a new official place and linked it, that way people would actually try something else instead of waiting the end of the blackout.
See this post: https://lemmy.intai.tech/comment/31833
I'm really hoping limereader works out as the dev has a really good idea for it.
spez tryna gaslight his staff into thinking we are frustrated with low-level staff lmao
it's pretty amazing how the entirety of reddit just united against this change.
Well, I hope this means that all those who followed this subreddit will come over here because, in the end, if Lemmy provides enough content to be a Reddit successor, it will succeed but, if it becomes a mere shadow of what was available there, it’ll fade away just like some of the “Twitter replacement” platforms have.
Yo ho! Yo ho! A pirate's life for me!
I always liked this one from Peter Pan:
Ohhhh! A pirate's life is a wonderful life
A-rovin' over the sea
Give me a career as a buccaneer
As the life of a pirate for me
Ohhhh! The life of a pirate for me
Ohhhh! A pirate's life is a wonderful life
They never bury your bones
For when it's all over, a jolly sea rover
Drops in on his friend Davy Jones
Ohhhh! His very good friend Davy Jones
Ohh, a pirate's life is a wonderful life
You'll find adventure and sport
But live every minute for all that is in it
The life of a pirate is short
Ohh, the life of a pirate is short
Ohh, a pirate's life is a wonderful life
Without a care to behold
You carry a gun and a jug of rum
And your pockets are loaded with gold
Oh! Your pockets are loaded with gold
Ohh, a pirate's life is a wonderful life
"But not forever," they say
When your neck's in a noose and you can't get loose
For the life of a pirate you'll pay
Ohh, the life of a pirate you'll pay
Ohh, a pirate's life is a wonderful life
Without a care to behold
You dig for pleasure to find some treasure
Your pockets are loaded with gold
Oh! Your pockets are loaded with gold
Lol nice.
Pirates showing subs like r/labrats how it's done! Drink up me hearties!
I'm a recent refugee from r/Piracy. I'm in solidarity with the indefinite blackout.
btw I'm still grasping the whole Lemmy situation. I created an account on Lemmy.world but apparently it doesn't link here. Any explanation on that?
Sorry, what doesn't link here? lemmy.world? does this work? https://lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
This one: https://lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.ml
This is not affiliated?
No, that's a different community. It used to be the official /r/piracy community, but I don't agree with the politics of lemmy.ml and I also wanted to run my own instance to ensure it stays up
Thank you for running your own instance. That's the beauty of the fediverse, knowing it can't be taken down unlike on Reddit where the threat was always present. Will not be visiting Reddit's piracy page anymore. We're good here!
I'm brand new this week to Lemmy/Beehaw/Mastodon/kbin/pixelfed (so new that I'm still trying to figure out what is just another name for the same thing or a client or what), and Jerboa is working very well for me on Android!
Not even then.
For me the Lemmyverse fills the same space. Like Usenet back in the Before Time. Even if Reddit were to do a complete 180/mea culpa I would no longer have a need for them, and the longer it goes on the more users will be comfortable here.
Agreed, it seems like if Lemmy improved their mod tools this will be even better than reddit. I was starting to feel doom whenever going on reddit and lemmy and the fediverse feels more like the community I wanted reddit to be.
Would be cool if we could get a decent app for Android too but TBH I'm not complaining.
Honestly, opportunity abounds. During great change is when money is made. Someone could easily make a quality app, put it on the stores for $1 or $2 to support their work, and it would be worth it.
The question is: Will lemmy be sufficient to replace reddit? I hope it is, I have no issue leaving Reddit.
Glad to be here. A shame that other communities don't do the same.
My Follow Pirates, Follow brethren, Net Neutrality for all. hip hip hooray!!
Never thought about how this relates to net neutrality. Reddit was kind of becoming a "common carrier" for information, but as a centralized source it's in their interest to filter content for money's sake. Here in the fediverse the communities (and their data) are cloned but constantly updated across many independently owned servers. So no one server owner can ever really steer the discourse. We just need an official way to migrate a community in the case an instance goes down/stops meeting the needs of the community.
so this is the official lemmy community for those who left r/Piracy?
wouldn't know, haven't opened reddit in days now because u/Spez can go fuck himself
Yes, yes it is.
Reddit is ded
You don't log into the other instances to access their communities. Instead, you log into your local instance and use the search function to search for the target community. Just enter the community name like that: !nameofcommunity@nameofinstance.
Alternatively you can click on Communities at the top (or the equivalent in your app), select "all" and browse all the communities anyone on your instance has ever searched for using the first method.
Federated means separated. There isn't one main big Lemmy like one main big reddit. It's a bunch of little Lemmys, like a bunch of little islands. Each little island is a server. You sign up for each server like it's its own individual forum/site. So like, you don't sign up for an entire platform (all of Lemmy), you sign up for one forum/sublemmy.
It works this way on purpose. It is a good thing. Reddit was on GIANT monstrosity, and yes that is convenient. But it was also convenient for one giant corporation to censor, cheat people, and do whatever they want. Is Lemmy slightly less convenient? Yes. It's a few extra clicks. You have to sign up for different servers. But for those few extra clicks, you gain huge freedom and no one corporation controls the whole thing. Entirely worth it, in my mind, to spend another minute or two. These communities are far too valuable to humanity for me to be stingy about convenience. With convenience, comes loss of freedom and personal power. If we don't do the work, a corporation will do all the work for us and then they'll also take whatever they want from us because of that convenience. They unfortunately sometimes prey on people who want the easiest way possible to do things.
It's a few extra clicks. You have to sign up for different servers.
Wait, what do you mean by this? I'm subscribing and commenting all over the Lemmy corner of the Fediverse, and my account is happily sitting on one instance. Is that not the whole point?
@EuphoricPenguin22 @DownloadMode Yes but you login on the instance you created your account on. After you login, you can follow other communities. I'm following a bunch on my Hometown instance.
For me, it goes a layer deeper. I log in to the instance I created my account on and the instance I created. Gotta flex that after paying for hosting and spending several hours learning how to work Ansible.
Whoops, my bad. I'm new here as well, I thought it required individual signups.
I guess it's just individual servers. Sorry 😔😀
Well, it's a good thing. It means that you can have one account like Reddit and Lemmy can still functionally be a decentralized network of smaller severs that communicate with one another.
hell yeah!
I've been using Relay since 2013, before the official app existed. It is better than the official app in every way: it's UI is cleaner, it's quicker, it's easier to follow comment threads and sort them, etc. Not to mention that there are no "sponsored" posts (ads) and banner apps every other post or comment..
How is the first party app better, exactly?
you can definitely stop using reddit once the 3rd party app goes dowb btw reddit native app has more than that so either use that or tell your third party creators to pay the money
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
I hate to say this but reddit probably doesn't care if r/piracy stays dark. We were probably one of the subs they were hoping to get rid of.
With that said i support the movement. The biggest loss is the institutional knowledge since we can't just search for an old post
Is there a mirror of the sub? It'd be great if we could mirror the content here.
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