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.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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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.
You are actually right.
This is what is going to inevitably happen with most technical subreddits. All the power users who contributed the most are either gone or leaving.
Reddit will be no better than Quora in a few years.
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.
Just like early reddit
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.
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
I think the only widely used site that has miraculously avoided enshittification has been wikipedia, because of a rock-solid ethical foundation.
If wikipedia somehow dies, I think that will truly mark the death of the open web for me.
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?!?
Pirates adapt or die. So at the very least you have increased your chances of survival. Don't know if sharks will eat you though.
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.
That shit has only memes
I don't think it really matters in the long run. After that site goes public and they try and appeal to advertisers, that subreddit and NSFW in general will become unpalatable to advertisers for not being 'brand safe' regardless of legality of simple discussions. It might take a few years but migration is inevitable.
I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community’s Mafia.
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!
True man I have come across more useful posts on lemmy in the past few days than reddit in a month or two.
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.
The only important thing to these platforms like reddit and now lemmy is the content. If there is valuable info here, people will stay. If there isn't then it will fade away.
I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community's Mafia.
I second the megathread part. Abandon the old one so if anyone needs updated guides they will have to come here.
Amazing idea, they should 100% do this.
Amazing idea, they should 100% do this.
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