I’m sure everyone lately has noticed there’s a tonne of hate on the privacy subreddit, with every new post/comment there getting more and more aggresive than the last

I personally am loving the Lemmy community but I feel as though keeping the piracy subreddit in it’s current state is making users of it quite hostile to change since they believe they are being forced to move

This will honestly make them refuse to ever use Kbin/Lemmy since in their eyes it’s the moderators and users here that have killed r/Piracy (obviously wrong of the stick it’s Reddit that’s killing it’s own communities with it’s policies)

So I guess it’s a question of should we as a community hand over the subreddit to a new moderation team or some other change since I don’t feel like it’s doing us any favours

Hoping to use this post as a sort of discussion about people’s opinions

122 points

Just purge reddit from your mind and be done with it.

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This. I’m baffled by people coming here to talk about Reddit.

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That’s baffling you? The majority of resources are on reddit right now and - unfortunately - people don’t care to move elsewhere. They just want their links and answers to questions that have been asked and answered 10,000 times and that’s it.

Again: Unfortunately.

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I think that’s the point, the people who care about things like the API changes have already made the migration, the rest of the losers stuck there in rubbit don’t matter to us, and as other posters noted this is likely the group of people is productive. Who cares. Leave them behind.

Not sure what this vast collection of resources is that you’re pining over. Theeye, among the vast majority of actual piracy resources, were never really on rubbit anyway…

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I did that and I live happier, communities will move to the Fediverse, don’t over think it

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Fuck doing this any easier to reddit. I’m of the mind to just remove all mods, set the community to restricted and if reddit wants to re-open it, they can find new mods themselves.

Unfortunately a few of the existing mods want to continue with reddit only and I’m not top mod anymore, so…

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People are so brain dead that they think the only place to get answers on piracy is reddit. Even 4chan is better if they can’t be bothered to come here or raddle or any piracy forums that exist outside of reddit if they are left that clueless.

Should nuke the stuff on reddit, and give it back to them to figure it all out for themselves. They can have their sub if they want to talk piracy on reddit that much. Probably go about recommending piratebay to each other to download software and games.

That should be the way for every sub really. Just wipe and leave it unmoderated and tell the people who are whining to go mod it themselves now that it’s back open.

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Even 4chan is better

RIP Trove.

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I disagree on nuking it. Its still user generated content and isn’t up to the mods to decide what happens to all of that. We just need to grow this community so that this is the real source for piracy related information.

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2 points

honestly this seems like an better choice

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I’m older, and remember the days when the internet was “hard” (pre web). And because you had to work a little bit to find information, you tended to stick with, and contribute to the groups you found. Better engagement, better discussion, more inside jokes, better community. Reddit has just turned into an echo chamber of the lowest common denominator. Lemmy feels a bit more like the old days - a community with actual content.

I vote: do whatever you want with it (kill it, hand it over, whatever). Let’s leave it behind and concentrate on making this place awesome.

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4 points

i hear this sentiment often and as a younger person i feel like i missed out on something cool

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3 points

At least you never got the chance. As a 40+yo, I feel like I had chance after chance to do great work and never took it, because I was young and lazy and selfish. And now it’s so much harder to do everything.

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2 points

this! having to work a little to find the community is a good filter, bc its not even that hard to find, but the effort makes sure everyone who comes here actually WANTS to find quality content

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47 points

From the looks of it, seems like the people who don’t care about the API are the ones left behind, makes me think these are the type of people who don’t contribute; and sooner or later they’ll realize that.

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I fully agree. It’s brain drain

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The comment quality is that sub went down in recent weeks. Many people don’t seem understand philosophical underpinnings.

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Still, that’s not an argument against what OP is proposing? Let them have it and moderate it to the best of their capabilities, and let them come here if the resulting community is not up to their standards.

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I don’t remember the last time I went to r/piracy except to check the megathread. Most of the content I came across there are low effort memes and low effort discussions but I had to check it recently to see pics of sexy pirates then I saw all the drama.

I’m absolutely disgusted by subs whose essence supposedley is anti-corpo yet aren’t planning to moving to another platform because they love Reddit so much! Of course, some mods in r/piracy actually made the effort to get people elsewhere but a lot of the users turned out to be corporate bootlickers.

I hope the users get charged a monthly subscription to access Reddit so they could come here to ask for modded Reddit apps.

Anyway, I don’t really care what happens to r/piracy. There’s a copy of the megathread here and if I need help, then I’m sure the users here are much more knowledgeable.

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Legit, I only looked there for the megathread too. It was just a cesspool of low effort content and people who didn’t check the megathread, if I’m gonna be honest.

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