!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com has the most subscribers out of any community according to lemmyverse.net

Likely a combination of the community having more tech savvy individuals + realising Reddit would fuck over r/Piracy eventually, making more of them follow dbzer0 here when they were overthrown.

Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That's how I found it.
Plus the downfall of the lemmy.fmhy.ml server, which had a pretty big and active piracy community too.
- What happened to them?
100% this, there isn't even a shadow of doubt

My understanding is that there had been an ongoing concern on /r/piracy that they would get shut down at some point, that this had been a concern in the past, and so the other stuff like the API restrictions and the rest of the spez drama was kind of just adding to the big factor pushing people away -- that the community could vanish at any time.

The lead mod on /r/piracy also set up a dedicated instance -- there was definite commitment -- made it clear that he was making the move, and was demodded on /r/piracy, so there were factors creating more inertia.

Those are all factors that did not generally exist for other communities.

IPO goals made it seem piracy days on reddit were numbered, so those with foresight were itching for a new place off reddit and leapt at the opportunity to find a new place.

Reddit desperately wants its piracy community back, not knowing that the ship has sailed arr

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- Piracy-friendly subreddits are not looked kindly by the advertisers that fund Reddit now. I think you're right.
- Hah they want the piracy community (to help "engagement" etc), until they don't.
  
  You're 100% right and I'm sorry I didn't continue my russian lessons :-/
  
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- Same thing that megalinks did when they got kicked off reddit

Keep in mind that Lemmy.world communities are not listed due to crawling issues.

Well that's a huge caveat. I bet their communities would be bigger then.
- Yes but actually not by much, !technology@lemmy.world has 37.7k subscribers, which is their biggest community
- Idk, the piracy community is huge here. Of all communities I've looked at, it's by far the most active.
What kind of crawling issues
- Crawling in my skin These wounds, they will not heal
- https://lemmy.world/post/2843318

Because people here are tired of being exploited by corps I would assume.

Also it's a teenage thing. No money but wants to play all the latest games. :)

I used to download every single game when I was a kid.

Im almost 60. So not just a teenage thing. Arrrr!
- I'm pushing 40 and want to be like you when I grow up!
- Always exceptions, some people like you stay cool their entire life :)
Personally, I like having more usable versions of things I already own. A certain company's games play better emulated on my PC day one than after a year of updates on their own console.
I'm about 40 and have used them as demos for some time. There are a ton of games I've ended up buying that I never would've due to piracy. Maybe I'm all alone, but when finances are tight, I QUIT pirating games so I won't find another I love.

Also I'm firmly in the "I bought it, so I should own it camp." I have quite a few games that I'll buy, but still use the pirated version because it doesn't need the internet, or need to spend an hour updating every time I want to play.
"I still do, but I used to too"

That's kinda strange, not gonna lie. I was expecting a lot more subs in the meme communities etc.

I do find it interesting that when lemmy instances are mentioned, lemmy.dbzer0.com is mentioned as an afterthought, if at all :D

Some people just don't want to admit they pirate, but we know they do 😉
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I reckon it's probably a good thing we are flying under the radar in the media tbh. Media attention might draw other forms of unwanted attention. It'll be interesting to see how things shake out over the next year or so though. Those meme communities have a lot of growth potential given their demographic.

🏴‍☠️ Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate! 🏴‍☠️

Arr harr ahoy and avast! Hang the black flag at the end of the mast!
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RIP Rottenbeard.

Although good for the active community, I don’t feel like it’s a great advertisement of lemmy for the wider public

Eh I think it's pretty neat. Means a majority of users are tired of or willing to subvert capitalism in some aspect and that gives me hope.
Piracy??? I thought this was a Pirates appreciation community!
- Exactly! A celebration of sailing on the high seas!

Ohhh that's a reason for the mainstream news agencies to make up sensational headlines and demonize the fediverse

That and they cannot control, own, or monetize it.

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

lemmy.cfd

I own this domain and don't have anything better to use it for, so it's a shorter link to the above mentioned community indexer.

Start a clothing fashion design dedicated instance immediately, it's the law
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- Wtf man, what does it even do? I love you did it though!

Hell ya dbzer0 represent!! ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)

I guess Lemmy users probably also have high sympathies for digital piracy, opposing copyright is very wide spread within the open source community but there are a lot of factors at play here and I'm glad that's the case because I only started to really use it on Lemmy! :)

german instances are stable overall, so they can afford the high community user count

So dbzer0.com points to a German server?

I'm interested in how the workload is split up, the database is the weak link right?

Edit: dude, it's a fast server, GG
- dbzer0.com is german yea, so is discuss.tchncs.de and feddit.de: and they are reliable

This is the way

Why is there no lemmy.world community at all? I'm pretty sure it has a lot of big communities

Putting all of the large communities on a single instance is just reddit with more steps. It's good that one of the larger Lemmy communities is not also on the largest Lemmy instance. Lemmy.world suffers a lot of outages (in part because it's so centralized), meanwhile this community remains available.
- That is the reason why I self host my own private instance.
- I'm pretty new here, what is an "instance"? And why is it better to have the big communities on different ones rather than one main?
Lemmy.world is shitting the bed lately, Lemmyverse is not able to collect data from it.
Yup, the Formula 1 community isn't in there for example.

As soon as reddit started looking into the money /r piracy's days were numbered.

Is there any equivalent of lemmyverse for kbin magazines?

Lemmyverse itself supports Kbin Magazines, just open the menu at the top right corner and hit the option.
- OH thank you! That is even more awesome. I didn't even think to look because of the name of the website has "lemmy" in it lol. This is exactly what I wanted :)
I'm subscribed to bother Lemmy communities and kbin magazines of the same name. I'm in kbin.social so I can't tell you the exact magazine name - I search for the subject, say tech, and then subscribe to all of the groups.

harr

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What the fuck is that commy shit on c/news?

That’s hexbear.net, a tankie instance
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  Ew, why lemmy has so many tankies
Socialis
That bothers you but the gay space communism on the technology community doesn't?