All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.
I’m concerned about this comment in the linked Reddit post.
What does it mean, “same mods”? What about “safety”? Can someone clarify?
I used to be top mod of piracy until the reddit blackouts last year, where I was demoted by the admins in a secret coup. I was reinstated by other mods, but have been idle since.
sunbothersco is also the top mod in /r/piracy and it mostly maintaining the megathread but is not very active in lemmy.
We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.
Thanks. That’s interesting, I didn’t know the mods here were mods there too. I believe people here wouldn’t be letting things fall apart (there is a reason people moved away from Reddit and the quality of content here is proof).
I was surprised to see those comments implying the megathread was no longer reliable though, I figured it was a stretch but had no idea why would they be thinking that.
To be quite honest, I wouldn’t mind sponsored posts as a way to support a community or instance, as long as they were completely disclosed as so and if the sponsor had no control over the moderation.
Fuck ads, they’re everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
Most likely this incident is an indirect result of that coup. After that, they had to rapidly replenish the mod team and didn’t have time to vet people, so they ended up with someone like this.
FWIW my recollection from looking over sunbothersco at the time was that they were a clout-seeker with no meaningful history on /r/piracy - they were repeatedly and aggressively asking to be made top mod of a wide variety of subs at the time, with no real connection between them. It sucks that reddit was forcing out top mods, but I wish they’d at least followed through on their threat to make it democracy, since there’s no way we would have ended up with someone like that if the system had been anything but “randomly hand the sub to whoever asks first and loudest.”
We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.
Can’t wait to look back on this comment in a few years
It seems that all posts/comments advocating migration to Lemmy are downvoted there. It’s truly sad that they still don’t realize Reddit is not a safe place anymore to talk about piracy and stuff
It may be selfish but i don’t want a reddit migration. I don’t hate redditors cuz i was one (ok i do hate em but only the regular hate redditors have for each other) but if this place became as popular as that one, it would bring with it the things i deliberately left behind.
Lemmy is great the way it is
I don’t think so. I think Lemmy already & inherently has many of the same problems. People are people, no matter where you go.
Lemmy is only better because it’s not centrally controlled.
I’m of the belief that more people more opinions wether you agree or not with them is always better. Reddit and here on Lemmy is both an “echo chamber” of there own making.
Same, there’s still plenty of room for growth but I don’t want it to ever pass like 2012 reddit level of activity, which was still a lot. But federation tech is also a solution if I ever feel that’s a problem so meh, come on over.
The creator of this community AND the instance it’s hosted on, is a mod on the piracy subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/user/dbzer0
though that doesnt mean the person is accepting bribes
i have no idea
I honestly see no reason to use Reddit for its Piracy Megathread. Lemmy’s user base is much more friendly, helpful and the Megathread here is the same (if not better) organized than there.
Not only that, I remember there was quite some problems among the mods on Reddit. So I’m not surprised something like this happened. Once there’s a slight fracture, it’ll slowly but steadily get broken into pieces entirely.
I don’t see much decent content on both Piracy and PiratedGames subreddit anyway. Majority is memes, ‘is this safe’ and spam posts about empress.
The megathread is here if anyone is wondering
Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.
What is a reddit? /s
