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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 179 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Piracy and Star Trek communities had a lot more success migrating their communities over to lemmy compared to other communities. Not 100% success as many opposed to the migration (I remember seeing big drama on r/piracy back then, and lesser drama on r/startrek), but a good chuck of them was successfully migrating to lemmy.

Edit: wait, I didn't realized it's @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com himself that made this post. Man, I don't know how you're able keep going with encouraging redditors to migrate to lemmy with how redditors that stay on r/piracy was treating you. I say good riddance! Your hard work paid off!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 154 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well I'm not really on reddit anymore, so that helps 😁

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bro, this community rocks, I didn't ditch Reddit completely but god all the time I head to /r/piracy are the same repeated memes all over again, here we have actual discussion.

As /r/piracy was one of my favorite subreddits, if not the favorite I always was scared Reddit would vanish it... Well not anymore, I am glad Lemmy happened so we have this awesome community, possibly forever.

BTW my lemm.ee account was created due to my prior lemmy.world blocking this community, I know they backtracked that decision, but I am so comfortable here that I didn't even bother to go back.

[–] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Lol, for me it was similar, I had a few things I didn't like about lemm.ee so I ditched my account there and went here by accident (well just by searchimg and it fulfilling all my needs and a ton more things), ended up liking this instance a ton so it became my daily driver

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[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago

You are the man!

[–] Blaze@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for your work

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 10 months ago

He is the best , thank you all you do Db0

[–] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did redditors treat him? I was subscribed to the sub and I have no idea who db0 is. I recently learned that db0 owns the lemmy.dbzer0.com instance but I don't know anything beyond that.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's still one of the top posts on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555?scrollToComments=true . r/piracy went downhill soon after this.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So what?

He was a mod and then he wasn't. Why does it matter? Whas he a very active and liked mod or something? And reddit did that not redditors.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's unprecedented at the time because he was the top mod so the only one that can remove him was Reddit admins, and they did. r/piracy fell into a complete chaos shortly after that, lots of awful stuff so I didn't stay long to see how it went.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Then how was it the "Redditors" fault?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 86 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Piracy and Porn rule the Internet

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Back in my day we had Netflix and nothing else, and it was good. Nowadays I can't even watch Looney Tunes on fucking Max because they were delisted. Please someone explain to these execs why they are losing money. They're dying.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

Execs are getting paid millions! They DGAF. Once they drive one thing into the ground, they can just move on after landing very softly with their golden parachute.

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[–] Tautvydaxx@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Because of the price hike by all the streaming services, pirating never felt better. I can watch anything I want, any time, dont have to wait for my monthly sub to expire to switch to another provider and than watch what onley they provide. Maybe if pirscy numbers rise they will do somthing that helps the consumer.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't pirate games anymore because steam solved my access problem.

Amazing that all these shitty streaming services make me wish blockbuster was a thing again.

But, since it isn't and never will be, it's a yo ho ho from me.

(Until a reasonable steam-esque service for movies/shows turns up anyway)

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 points 10 months ago

Until you think it might be fun to play 2 games on 2 different monitors on 2 computers at the same time. Then you realise, Steam games are not treated as just software. 1 of the many reasons I prefer to pay the price for GoG despite Steam being significantly cheaper due to regional pricing.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 months ago

A pirate is always free.

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I for one didn't know about Lemmy until the redit piracy community moved here.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 10 months ago

I think I might be one of the very few reddit admins who took the move to lemmy seriously and that's why we managed to succeed so well.

[–] clover@slrpnk.net 18 points 10 months ago

Yarr!

[–] zbynaCool@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to be part of the memes community but it sucked so much ass that I just returned to reddit

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[–] Savendro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Yo ho ho 🏴‍☠️

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

We ain't pay for shit.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

i don't even pirate much and im still subscribed, must be something in the activitypub protocol

(to avoid anyone getting whooshed the last part is a joke)

[–] Staiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

This is pretty awesome grats dbzer0!

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I thought that it would have been one of the Linux subs lol

[–] bradboimler@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

One question what front end is that?

[–] jlow 3 points 10 months ago
[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

It's not a front end for Lemmy but it's a website that you can use to find new communities over several instances. It's called Lemmy Explorer.

[–] CapitanStrider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Hell yeah

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Surprising its not one on lemmynsfw

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Ahoy matey!

[–] cobra89 3 points 10 months ago

I can see the headlines from shitty tech news websites now: "What is lemmy? A platform mostly where crooks go to find content to illegally download."

Or something equally ridiculous.

[–] jadelord@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Lemmyverse? How will that exist in the Fediverse?

Fediverse > Lemmy Galaxy / Cluster?

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

So I guess it's good there was a mass exodus from lemmy world.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

Congratulations!

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Yargh!

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

People pirate and then wonder why small developer studios for example go broke or software becomes more expensive or less plenty. It's so dumb it hurts.