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.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 65 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 21 points 7 months ago

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

[–] rglullis@communick.news 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

To be quite honest, I wouldn't mind sponsored posts as a way to support a community or instance, as long as they were completely disclosed as so and if the sponsor had no control over the moderation.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 7 months ago

If we get instance sponsors it will probably in the instance sidebar, but for now we don't quite need them

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fuck ads, they're everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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 avoid the need of alternative methods of funding?

[–] sadbehr@lemmy.nz 14 points 7 months ago

Just wanted to say thank you for your service over the two platforms.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.

Can't wait to look back on this comment in a few years

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You trying to imply smt?

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Cube6392 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

hmm after rereading the initial comment I mean it's not impossible but I'd posit that it's highly unlikely as the majority of us have already experienced the dynamics where doing so would drive our users away to another instance like the initial reddit implosion

I'd assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for

and yes that'd probably be it

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yes

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Don't be a coward, say what you mean.

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[–] Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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."