I used to be top mod of piracy until the reddit blackouts last year, where I was demoted by the admins in a secret coup. I was reinstated by other mods, but have been idle since.
sunbothersco is also the top mod in /r/piracy and it mostly maintaining the megathread but is not very active in lemmy.
We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.
Thanks. That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too. I believe people here wouldn't be letting things fall apart (there is a reason people moved away from Reddit and the quality of content here is proof).
I was surprised to see those comments implying the megathread was no longer reliable though, I figured it was a stretch but had no idea why would they be thinking that.
That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too.
tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case cause after reddit's self-made implosion with the API access debacle, the majority of us migrated to (fediverse instances such as) mastodon and here
To be quite honest, I wouldn't mind sponsored posts as a way to support a community or instance, as long as they would were completely disclosed as so and if the sponsor had no control over the moderation.
Fuck ads, they're everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
No one is forcing you to see them, especially given that this is an open source system with open source clients.
Also, how much are you paying/contributing to the developers, admins and moderators in order to a good the need of alternative methods of funding?
Most likely this incident is an indirect result of that coup. After that, they had to rapidly replenish the mod team and didn't have time to vet people, so they ended up with someone like this.
FWIW my recollection from looking over sunbothersco at the time was that they were a clout-seeker with no meaningful history on /r/piracy - they were repeatedly and aggressively asking to be made top mod of a wide variety of subs at the time, with no real connection between them. It sucks that reddit was forcing out top mods, but I wish they'd at least followed through on their threat to make it democracy, since there's no way we would have ended up with someone like that if the system had been anything but "randomly hand the sub to whoever asks first and loudest."
I'd recommend ignoring the uninformed or ignorant bait
it doesn't make sense as the fediverse systems here are under an AGPL-3.0 license
I don't think so. I think Lemmy already & inherently has many of the same problems. People are people, no matter where you go.
Lemmy is only better because it's not centrally controlled.
The problems would only get exacerbated if more of them migrate over here, that's the issue. I don't think decentralization would solve the issues that'd come with people mass redditposting and shitting all over the place, especially considering the vast majority of users are in lemmy.world, so what good would that do when the majority of the userbase are centralized in a single instance?
Same, there's still plenty of room for growth but I don't want it to ever pass like 2012 reddit level of activity, which was still a lot. But federation tech is also a solution if I ever feel that's a problem so meh, come on over.
I honestly see no reason to use Reddit for its Piracy Megathread. Lemmy’s user base is much more friendly, helpful and the Megathread here is the same (if not better) organized than there.
Not only that, I remember there was quite some problems among the mods on Reddit. So I’m not surprised something like this happened. Once there’s a slight fracture, it’ll slowly but steadily get broken into pieces entirely.
I don’t see much decent content on both Piracy and PiratedGames subreddit anyway. Majority is memes, ‘is this safe’ and spam posts about empress.
The megathread is here if anyone is wondering
That's some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit's default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.
The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod's PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.
Is... Is there some reason not to send that much money via PayPal?
Asking for a friend.
PayPal allow easy reversal if transactions. Their dispute team favour protecting the buyer by far.
That's an understatement, PayPal will pretty much always side with the buyer no matter how ridiculous and outlandish their claim. I even had one "dispute" where the scammer changed the dispute reason which caused PayPal to ignore what I'd already submitted and close it in their favour by default as "no response". PayPal is very much pro-scammer, avoid if possible.
It's been a few years since I've had to deal with clients directly, I don't think I'll ever miss it.
As a buyer, I've had to fight hard to get items returned to scammy sellers.
I only ask because I have some members of my family transfer money between them, and it's usually a high amount like that.
one person's footgun is another's opportunity lol
Crowdstrike is not owned or in any way in a business relationship with Microsoft, offers the software that caused the issue for Mac and Linux as well, and in fact caused similar issues on specific Linux Distros a few months before this recent cock up.
The issue only effected Windows OS machines that were running the Crowdstrike Falcon endpoint protection software, which runs at ring 0, kernel level. This presents the same potential for causing boot loops in all OSes due to the nature of running software that deep into the guts of things. The only caveat is that some Linux Distros have separation preventing things from running at that low level, and apparently so does Mac OS.
The update was not pushed out through Microsoft, as many are incorrectly repeating. It was a malware definitions update which was downloaded automatically by the Falcon software itself, without any configuration options available for admins to stage and do partial rollouts for testing.
Also, I significantly doubt that any company is going to do a complete overhaul of its IT architecture to switch over to a new OS for end user devices, when the simplest solution is to just switch to a different endpoint protection software. I've worked half a decade in an enterprise architecture type position, that simply isn't how things work in this world.
Thanks for linking the Reddit thread. I tried to do my part to spread the word. The more people talk about Lemmy on Reddit, the more people users will switch.
He would've had a Lemmy instance running secretly in a server closet somewhere on the MIT campus.
Well if all the good mods leave and you only have the bad ones left or people who come in just to profit, you get this.
Oh that's really transparently a scam
So we aren't using an unauthorised copy?
How baller would it be to pirate a piracy megathread
Disappointing tgat we arent when you put it that way
It's not readable in general, but the first screenshot is about the mods being complicit, the second is the post in question. The post claims a way to "unlock coursehero, chegg + more" and points to a discord. There isn't really more than that.
u/dysgraphical then said:
The mod u/ Furdiburd10 who manually approved and stickied the post has been removed from the mod team. Reddit's spam filter actually caught it early on and the community helped mass report. They also fully censored comments from yall calling it out.
Sorry we let this slip. This shit happened seven years ago too for folks that were around that time: https://torrentfreak.com/...
Edit: If you were banned by this loser or muted, please DM me and I'll comb through the logs and work on reinstating you back.
I tried to see about grabbing the post by pirat_nation for the screenshots, but the tweet doesn't show and I don't have/won't use a twitter account.
fuck reddit lmao
Least controversial day on Reddit.
The fact that even happened tbh is insane tbh, but I’m so glad that people are now jumping ship tbh esp what the dumb decisions Reddit has made in the past couple of years.
My reply to to be honest is always oh, were you lying before?.
Usually gets a confused laugh.
Looking through their comment history, they proclaim their honesty quite often, it's pretty funny when you're looking for it 😆
I've now tagged them so I'll remember that they are very honest:
I took a bribe on my Minecraft server once. Although I made them change it from going to me to being a direct donation and keeping it a secret. I also confirmed it with the owner who was basically paying for it out of pocket lol. Good times.
What happened last night??
No honor among thieves. Remember that.
thanks for using Leebra!
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I'm concerned about this comment in the linked Reddit post.
What does it mean, "same mods"? What about "safety"? Can someone clarify?
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