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r/Piracy on Reddit is more of a meme subreddit. I've never seen any actual discussion or valuable information as I do on this community. Why is that?

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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah! And it helps that there is no karma here. We just give a hoot about preservation and sharing. :)

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even though it's meaningless I have seen some people in different communities voting down comments and posts they don't agree with like on Reddit which is unfortunate.

For the piracy community I hope it doesn't just turn into passive aggressive comments directing people to the megathread all the time.

I like helping people dig for obscure stuff

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joke's on them, my instance doesn't have a downvote button, downvotes don't affect me in the slightest :P

[–] Stelus42@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's beehaw right <.< Quick curiosity, does that extend to other instances for you? Or can you still downvote as long as it's not on a community within your own instance? I didn't make my own account there, but I read the explanation for no downvoting and I felt like it made a lot of sense.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's lemmy.blahaj.zone. :)

Can't downvote, and downvotes don't affect my experience in any way. Top is sorted by raw upvotes. If someone downvotes, it's the same as if they didn't vote at all to me.

I love it!

[–] Stelus42@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yeah, I guess I could have checked the rest of your profile name lol. That's very cool! It's really making me think more about which instance I wanna stick with as a primary.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t downvoted a single thing since joining here. I feel like all I did on Reddit was downvote, there was just a deluge of irritating nothing-comments and posts there. There’s such better discussion here. I’ve already discovered some awesome stuff (like movie-web.app, holy shit) and had some great advice from nice folks about where to go for information on stuff I wanna do.

I hate to say it, but I think the relative inaccessibility of Lemmy makes the community wholly better. Reddit’s decline really began when any cunt with shit views could easily download their app, make an account in two seconds, and spew hate all over. Before that, it was just nerds like me who sat at their computer all day to chat.

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I hate to say it, but I think the relative inaccessibility of Lemmy makes the community wholly better. Reddit’s decline really began when any cunt with shit views could easily download their app, make an account in two seconds, and spew hate all over. Before that, it was just nerds like me who at their computer all day to chat.

Unfortunately I feel like that hate and those shitty views are going to spread here soon. I've already seen some people unnecessarily gate keeping over niche topics which is one thing but there's also hateful communities. I can block them but another always seems to spring up.