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.
Plus the downfall of the lemmy.fmhy.ml server, which had a pretty big and active piracy community too.
govt of mali let use freenom .ml domains, then freenom removed them for reasons, one of reasons being that it got traction. (?) they have moved since to fmhy.net
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.
Reddit desperately wants its piracy community back, not knowing that the ship has sailed arr
Keep in mind that Lemmy.world communities are not listed due to crawling issues.
Yes but actually not by much, !technology@lemmy.world has 37.7k subscribers, which is their biggest community
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.
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.
