If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they’ve got another thing coming…

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I hate to say this but reddit probably doesn’t care if r/piracy stays dark. We were probably one of the subs they were hoping to get rid of.

With that said i support the movement. The biggest loss is the institutional knowledge since we can’t just search for an old post

Is there a mirror of the sub? It’d be great if we could mirror the content here.

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It’s why this blackout has been a blessing, since piracy days on reddit were numbered anyways. I’m glad we got to get our community elsewhere before being randomly banned before there was an opportunity to regroup.

Have had many lost communites like megaupload back in the day that reddit killed off. With how helpful the piracy community has been with stuff like the wiki Reddit would have set their eyes on us anyways in the long run.

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Archive.org probably has backed up a lot of stuff. regardless, I’m kinda sad tho that I promised someone I’d send them a file but i procrastinated and this happened, so I can’t find the original comment anymore rip

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Hopefully they can find their way here.

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I agree fully except with the mirror aspect. Mirroring is what tends to cause the dissolution of alternatives like Lemmy. It makes it too convenient and a target by bigger powers. It is federated but that doesn’t mean it’s invincible. It would be smart to keep it separate and try to let it become its own thing. Grassroots promotion may be the way to go. I mean, I agree, mirroring would be nice and convenient, but we have to be smart and use tact as well.

We have something wonderful here. Let’s keep it going long and strong! 😀

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I am ready to leave reddit. Fuck you u/Spez

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Remember Lemmy’s growth starts with you, post your favourite things, talk about your favourite things.

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Hello everyone! This is my first Lemmy post. :)

I 100% support a permanent shutdown of r/Piracy, but at the same time, I think it would be very useful if the contents of r/Piracy were made available elsewhere for archival purposes. Could the sub be temporarily reopened in read-only mode to allow for it to be scraped? Or is it already available somewhere?

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I might consider doing that on the 30th

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Yes, only for the purposes of archival and so people who aren’t aware of /r/piracy being reborn like a phoenix on lemmy can find us. But, never unrestricted.

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Awesome! Thank you!

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We’ll probably need more than one day if the archive includes all of the threads (which also include a lot of good information) and not just the wiki. There is this Reddit importer that can take post and comment data scraped from the Reddit API and import it into Lemmy, but because of the volume of data, it will take a while before the scraping is complete by July 1st.

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I’m not going to re-import /r/piracy into lemmy. I am probably going to put /r/piracy into restricted mode eventually

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Just subscribed here and want to say I completely support you doing an indefinite blackout.

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I support an indefinite blackout. Pirates are tech-savvy enough to make the Fediverse into a proper new home for themselves. Edit: pressed enter too soon.

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Yes, piracy forced me to keep adapting to new stuff whether I wanted to or not. We are made for this.

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