Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

This could not be any funnier. Please reddit, take legal control of the piracy subreddit, right as you take the experienced mod team out. I'm sure everything will go fantastic.

Haha what the fuck I really did NOT think they would do that to r/piracy of all things. Ah well fuck them and their shitty IPO. I‘m here with you guys for good, the structure of the fediverse suits our purposes and community better anyway.

Obvious that this is automated and will be going out to all subs. They definitely wouldn't go to bat to keep a piracy sub open, unless they're even dumber than I thought.

Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL

1: Funny we were all in here like two days ago saying "they'll probably be happy to have the piracy sub gone"

2: Any member of the existing mod team that helps them is a fucking scab

3: Everyone else has made a good point about some potential liability issues of reddit the corporation wresting control of the piracy subreddit into their own hands

4: There are so many layers of irony with a corporation saying people need to have access to the community that tells them how to commit copyright infringement and then forcing that information into the open despite what its caretakers wish.

That was enough to get me to officially sign up here.

Its an industrial lockout so classically you either organize and strike even harder or burn down the capitalist pigs factory.

Well, good thing that you prepared well in advance and have already built a nice alternative.

Reddit is done

So basically, according to Reddit, they own everything on Reddit. That means all the the CP, hate speech — and in this case, piracy — that are posted on Reddit are Reddit's responsibility. Bold strategy, cotton. They're basically waiving their net neutrality.

This bullshit made me nuke my 30k karma account. I hope lemmy won't die month later.

I reinvited you in case you care.

lol imagine being so desperate for the protest to come to an end that you are even targeting a community that engages in legally questionable activity.

I'm sure the process of determining what mods to DM was automated, but even so, it's still pretty funny to me.

They went easy on you. Some overzealous mod permabanned my entire account for talking about Lemmy. Allegedly against their 'content guidelines'

So Reddit is forcing open a piracy sub. I wonder how potential investors would feel about that?

This should somehow be made known outside the fediverse, to bring more people away from reddit and to here

Yeah in the antiwork subreddit my comments are instantly shadowbanned, my old comments in other subs show up , reddit is in major emergency mode apparently.

Good

Oh thank God, i first thought that the reddit navy entered Lemmy. i don't care about what happens on reddit, in fact, i'e be happy if they'd harm it.

But: can't mods nuke the subreddit history before they're demoded?

Pretty ironic text. It's in part because of the trust put in moderators that they feel the need to protest / protest following that obligation.

r/wallstreetbets is probably preparing to short Reddit once they IPO 😂

Fuck those Reddit punks, people can make a better piracy community in the fediverse.

Looks like I made the right decision to join Lemmy today. Reddit is a sinking ship

I think this calls for the subreddit to get rm -rf /*'d so that reddit gets nothing.

Ah yes, "please reopen the piracy sub so people can discuss piracy freely 🥺".
My bet is this is an automated message sent to big subreddits.

Make sure you remove any and all bots created, and delete all the custom work you did. Reddit can probably restore it, but it'll take them time and effort to do so.

Fuck reddit. Its jjst a platform and guess what, its nlt the only one 😅

Well here I am, screw Reddit. Didn't much like supporting the corporate greed and corruption anyway.

That pinned New Users Guide is a big help. Was a bit confused at first, but I think I get the instance and location thing now. It's actually pretty ingenious. Don't know if any of you are old enough to remember the BBS days when a bunch of them interconnected on FidoNet, reminds me of that. Very cool, like an old idea anew.

This instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com) seems to be in Germany and I'm in the USA so it can get pretty laggy on me. Need to find a USA instance. I tried signing up for lemmy.one and beehaw.org which are USA, but they have a vetting process where I had to fill in some questions and wait for a reply. That's kind of weird. Those are good ones right, non toxic? This one let me sign up instantly so in any case it should do for now, or later if not's too slow for me.

So, is that an order to abandon ship?

I like this ship we building here. Lets make it good for sailing again bois.

I'd be surprised if the subreddit survives the IPO anyways

The high seas flow in different direction according to time. Tis but a scratch. Lemmy looks promising from first look.

Archive and delete is the only language those scurvy dogs speak.