I just realized /c/piracy is the most subscribed community in the lemmyverse!

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!
- Well I'm not really on reddit anymore, so that helps 😁
  
  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.
  
  You are the man!
  
  Thank you so much for your work
- He is the best , thank you all you do Db0
- How were redditors treating them? Just being obnoxious and refusing to change?
  
  My memory is hazy, but during the subreddit protest, he was somehow removed from moderator list (did the admins got involved?), and the sub reopened shortly after. From then on, any thread about migration to Lemmy is full of people roasting each other. It was awful. No idea why those who remains were so vehemently opposed to migration of a piracy community. It's not like you can openly discuss piracy stuff on Reddit without risking removal by the admins.
- 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.
  
  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.

Piracy and Porn rule the Internet
- And cute cat pictures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM
  
  The two things that rule the internet, pussy.
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  and ai generated jesus
- Ahem, misinformation would like a word with you.
  
  Misinfo needs to piggyback off of what people are using their internet connections primarily for.
  
  Misinformation about piracy and porn.

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.
- I got into datahording pirated media out of spite, youthful angst and complete lack of funds. Now i literally consider it an act of preservation.
  
  lack of funds
  datahoarding
  how’s that working out for you?
- 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.
  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- To be fair I can't find a decent collection Looney Tunes on the high seas either.
  
  It's out there. I managed to collect nearly everything from I think '35 onwards.
- 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.

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)
- 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.
  
  No idea what you’re talking about; I’ve played two games from steam plenty of times while waiting for something in a game.

A pirate is always free.
- At no fee 🎶

I had not realised this before, that there are multiple versions of the same community on different instances. For example there are multiple meme communities on different instances.
I wonder how this affects engagement considering that although there might be one large community there are several smaller ones. Perhaps not everyone assumes that there's a larger community on a different instance.
Also how does this affect niche communities where it may be that due to high fragmentation these communities might seem unusually small.
Further, if these niche communities remain unusually smaller than there Reddit counter parts would users leave do to perhaps lack of content versus their Reddit counter parts.
This is kind of a chicken and egg - users migrate or engage the more activity there is and it may lead to discouragement if their first impression is that there isn't content.
I don't know I'm probably rambling and don't know what I'm talking about.
- The same is true in reddit. You have multiple communities effectively about the same thing. Eventually one settles into the "primary" one
  
  I wonder if there shouldn't be a way of federating duplicate groups after the fact so one doesn't have to "win", they just all combine as one.
- It's an issue that could be solved within lemmy where communities with the same name should be able to merge and show each others content.
  It also happens when users join and pick the largest community at the time, which may be overtaken later but the user will never know unless they often go looking
  
  It's an issue that could be solved within lemmy where communities with the same name should be able to merge and show each others content.
  This is bad idea though, unless if it's an optional feature that the users themselves choose to activate (e.g similar to multireddit, but you don't have to manually curate the communities yourself). Imagine the same community from two opposing instances (e.g. blahaj and hexbear) somehow got merged by default. That would be an absolute shitshow. Also, how would moderation work? Those communities often have different moderation rule. Can mods from one community remove posts from another community with the same name? This would also be an absolute shitshow.
  
  That seems like a terrible idea, mostly anyways.
  Just crosspost if you feel it fits your community.

I for one didn't know about Lemmy until the redit piracy community moved here.
- 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.
  
  Yup. I remember how hectic that sub was during the exodus lol

If I'm not mistaken, lemmyverse.net did not always report properly from lemmy.world and there is a community with slightly more subscribers (https://lemmy.world/c/technology with 49.8k subs today)
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !technology@lemmy.world
- Ah, I thought that might be the case. I did check that lemmy.world communities are listed to ensure it's not hiding them when I checked and I saw some.

I used to be part of the memes community but it sucked so much ass that I just returned to reddit
- there's a lot of Linux memes... don't get me wrong I've had a chuckle at a couple Linux memes before but tbh most of the time it's just a reference to Linux and they forget to include a joke.
  
  Those people are weird. I’m saying this as someone that has a Steam Deck and runs Proxmox and Opensense and 13 VMs and containers on my network, so you know I understand the value: Linux should never be prescribed to Normies. This is not the year of the Linux desktop. It might be your year of the Linux desktop, and that’s great! But to blanket prescribe it to everyone with a slight problem in Mac or Windows with the phrase “Just Use Linux!:tm:” like all of their problems will go away if you just move to a new OS is the most asinine, fanboy shit I’ve ever heard of. And it doesn’t have anything to do with “skill issues” or whatever, it’s that normal people don’t fucking care, just want shit to work
  But I get it, we’re in the fediverse, where people have a higher proclivity for open source, open protocol, open hosting, open bars, etc. But if you’re reading this and getting upset, please understand there’s a whole lot of other shit to care about, and someone’s choice of OS has as much to do with you as their sexual preferences: none at all.
- Which one? The lemmyml community sucks because there are so many tankies, but according to the Community-Browser there are at least half a dozen other general meme groups.
- Rent free

Yarr!

It's a fantastic resource even if you are personally kinda cringe.
- Thanks hexbear. If you're from one of the bullying crowd, then the feeling's mutual :P

Yo ho ho 🏴‍☠️

We ain't pay for shit.

I just want to say db0 thanks for pythorhead!! definitely made my bot a bit easier to write.
- Glad to hear it!

- Your video doesn’t work on iOS.
  
  File a bug report with apple
  
  Your video doesn’t work on iOS.
  iOS doesn't work.

- It might not seem much, but God Bless You (with the caps) for posting these. You couldn't be more on point.

- i am half italian and i approve of this message

Great! Sail bravely, for we're heading into the exciting waters of the future!
Rarr!

Liberation of closed source/trade marked goods is only a good thing.
- Yeah but it's still corporate pandering and drowning your brain in bullshit. 'did you see the latest show that rich people decided we should be brainwashed with, it contains all the talking points they think will help society to continue to benefit them'
  I much prefer stuff that's free because it's made by people who want to make it, I'll even put a few coins in their patreon if I really like it.
  
  Yes and no, I understand what your saying but there is paid media that's has been born through passion and not a board room of ceos and marketers, share holders.
  But I have less trust, especially series as they tend to start from passion then hijacked by corporate

It's all thanks to those big companies that always make the worst crap.

Wow, impressive

is it? on my end, I can see that !technology@lemmy.world has 50k subs, but it doesn't come up if I search for it. weird
- I think stats are all over the place. According to this /c/piracy is top.
  But, yeah. When you go to technology on lemmy.world it shows 50k. When I visit it from feddit.uk, I see 294 subscribers.
  Is each one showing how many users just your instance has subscribed, or does the lemmy.world one actually have the correct amount?
  
  Each instance is showing how many from their instance are subbed. The parent instance should be showing the accurate count from all instances

I can't find copies of Australian standards books :(
- Yo if you ever find a good source PLEASE tell me, this is a constant struggle for me too, I will return the favour
  
  I'll keep it in mind. It's so weird how gated it is

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)

Thank you for your service.

This is pretty awesome grats dbzer0!

Surprising its not one on lemmynsfw

Hell yeah

I'm doing my part! o7

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

Congrats mate 👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks for everything you do with your instance and with fediseer.

Ahoy matey!

One question what front end is that?
- 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.
- https://lemmyverse.net I think?

Wasn't this damn fediverse made because of this....? It should be obvious...
- nah, it was a politically conscious choice to set up something like reddit, outside the control of capital and the state. the devs have written about it.
  
  I mean, yes, but granted, for all I know, I'm supposing that Lemmy was built for open-source software supporters, and I guess alotta 'civil' liberals and 'libertarians' joined in, due to this cause...
  I was thinking there was like a seperation between the M-Leninist mods (eg. Dessalines) and their site's followers.... like church and state...

Congratulations!

Lemmyverse? How will that exist in the Fediverse?
Fediverse > Lemmy Galaxy / Cluster?

Heh, that's kind of funny

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.
- That would just attract people IMO.

Yargh!

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.