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.
Noticed there's a lot of geeky people on lemmy, and so many seem to be using stuff like linux in threads asking what OS do you use. Which is definitely a big outlier from the average user. So seems like even if the numbers aren't high that there's a lot of people who can provide tech support to dumb people like me.
Because its people who are geeky who tend to be more willing to try something new and not use the default. Wouldnt be suprised if the average 3rd party app user was on average, more technicly inclined than the average official app user. Its automatically true for the mods given having access to more tools via 3rd party.
I'm pretty "stupid" as well when it comes to online literacy, it's definitely challenging me to use Lemmy (I'm on Jerboa right now, gonna try some other apps like Wefwef and Sync when it comes out to see how I like them) but I really like the community and the potential here. I'm gonna have to learn how to do a lot of new things here, like figure out the extent of where my log in works, how to organize the instances I want to go to and be a part of, and how to search through this content. But I'd rather get on the ball now so I can fully integrate and leave Reddit behind. It already felt like a cesspool before Spez did his thing, and it's getting worse by the minute now that the 3rd party apps are down
Quora was great for a while and then one day I suddenly realised how much garbage was being pushed down my throat... Or at least that's how I remember it, I never looked back after leaving
Wikipedia is probably the most important site on the internet, I hope it continues to keep those standards and keeps growing and improving their reputation as an unparalleled source of information.
Bold of you to assume it's any better than Quora right now.
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?!?
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.
You Arrrr
It's been like that for years.
If everyone who regularly posted over there just, disappeared, I don't think the piracy scene would even notice.
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
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.
Thanks for the explanation!
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.
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! 🏴☠️
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.
I second the megathread part. Abandon the old one so if anyone needs updated guides they will have to come here.
thanks for using Leebra!
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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.
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