r/Piracy probably needs a rethink
r/Piracy probably needs a rethink
I'm sure everyone lately has noticed there's a tonne of hate on the privacy subreddit, with every new post/comment there getting more and more aggresive than the last
I personally am loving the Lemmy community but I feel as though keeping the piracy subreddit in it's current state is making users of it quite hostile to change since they believe they are being forced to move
This will honestly make them refuse to ever use Kbin/Lemmy since in their eyes it's the moderators and users here that have killed r/Piracy (obviously wrong of the stick it's Reddit that's killing it's own communities with it's policies)
So I guess it's a question of should we as a community hand over the subreddit to a new moderation team or some other change since I don't feel like it's doing us any favours
Hoping to use this post as a sort of discussion about people's opinions
Instead of thinking about what we could do on reddit, think about what we're going to do on Lemmy.
From the looks of it, seems like the people who don't care about the API are the ones left behind, makes me think these are the type of people who don't contribute; and sooner or later they'll realize that.
The comment quality is that sub went down in recent weeks. Many people don't seem understand philosophical underpinnings.
Fuck doing this any easier to reddit. I'm of the mind to just remove all mods, set the community to restricted and if reddit wants to re-open it, they can find new mods themselves.
Unfortunately a few of the existing mods want to continue with reddit only and I'm not top mod anymore, so...
People are so brain dead that they think the only place to get answers on piracy is reddit. Even 4chan is better if they can't be bothered to come here or raddle or any piracy forums that exist outside of reddit if they are left that clueless.
Should nuke the stuff on reddit, and give it back to them to figure it all out for themselves. They can have their sub if they want to talk piracy on reddit that much. Probably go about recommending piratebay to each other to download software and games.
That should be the way for every sub really. Just wipe and leave it unmoderated and tell the people who are whining to go mod it themselves now that it's back open.
I disagree on nuking it. Its still user generated content and isn't up to the mods to decide what happens to all of that. We just need to grow this community so that this is the real source for piracy related information.
People who haven't joined or even tried Lemmy at this point are just close-minded. What stopped them from joining Lemmy during the initial days of blackout, way before all the John Olivier fuckfest? These same users are acting like you can't use one more site. Probably addicted to Reddit karma.
Reddit will not improve and it will get worse for sure. It's actually good all of these happened, at least the sub will die at the mods' hands. Considering Reddit already killed piracy subs like megalinks years ago and slowly banning other piracy subs one by one, the site's becoming more and more unfitting for piracy discussion and it hasn't been the most comfortable site for discussing piracy ever since those events. Mods have to impose stricter rules to avoid a ban, at least there's way more freedom in piracy discussion on Lemmy, just like on Reddit years ago. Reddit will most likely ban all piracy related subs in the next few years, maybe they'll even pull a Tumblr/Imgur and ban all NSFW subs.
I’m older, and remember the days when the internet was “hard” (pre web). And because you had to work a little bit to find information, you tended to stick with, and contribute to the groups you found. Better engagement, better discussion, more inside jokes, better community. Reddit has just turned into an echo chamber of the lowest common denominator. Lemmy feels a bit more like the old days - a community with actual content.
I vote: do whatever you want with it (kill it, hand it over, whatever). Let’s leave it behind and concentrate on making this place awesome.
I don't remember the last time I went to r/piracy except to check the megathread. Most of the content I came across there are low effort memes and low effort discussions but I had to check it recently to see pics of sexy pirates then I saw all the drama.
I'm absolutely disgusted by subs whose essence supposedley is anti-corpo yet aren't planning to moving to another platform because they love Reddit so much! Of course, some mods in r/piracy actually made the effort to get people elsewhere but a lot of the users turned out to be corporate bootlickers.
I hope the users get charged a monthly subscription to access Reddit so they could come here to ask for modded Reddit apps.
Anyway, I don't really care what happens to r/piracy. There's a copy of the megathread here and if I need help, then I'm sure the users here are much more knowledgeable.
I see these users constantly call for the removal of mods. Let them go the way of interestingasfuck, with mods forcefully removed by the admins and it is now desolate and closed to new submissions
Give the people what they want
And yes I will keep talking about reddit because I love drama. Give me better drama to talk about and I will move on
I do kind of think Reddit will be very hesitant about assigning mods to piracy subreddits since it might look like them encouraging piracy
In all honesty in surprised Reddit hasn't been more heavy handed removing subs like these
Just purge reddit from your mind and be done with it.
This. I'm baffled by people coming here to talk about Reddit.
That's baffling you? The majority of resources are on reddit right now and - unfortunately - people don't care to move elsewhere. They just want their links and answers to questions that have been asked and answered 10,000 times and that's it.
Again: Unfortunately.
Pirates have always been known to be aggressive since they were sailing on boats with hooks and swords.
"Today's pirates are too mean!"
You're right, I also got the pirate experience on the same sub...