I see more and more (I assume young) people that are bootlickers on r/piracy that I’m wondering the following.
IF, the real productive people, like the mods on that sub like db0 for example, come here, and there is still people there is it really important to have a sub there?
You see, if there is no productive conversation going on that sub, because the people who are productive came here, that sub will die off, but slowly.
At least we got rid of the bootlickers, right? Also, as always piracy always gets banned, if a site gets too big, too mainstream. r/piracy was mainstream. It’s better if that sub is the frontpage of piracy, but the real important things are happening here.
My request for the mods: Next time, when there is a need for an update of the megathread, don’t update there. No need. Just do it here. It helps lemmy more that way.
This is what is going to inevitably happen with most technical subreddits. All the power users who contributed the most are either gone or leaving.
Reddit will be no better than Quora in a few years.
Noticed there’s a lot of geeky people on lemmy, and so many seem to be using stuff like linux in threads asking what OS do you use. Which is definitely a big outlier from the average user. So seems like even if the numbers aren’t high that there’s a lot of people who can provide tech support to dumb people like me.
Because its people who are geeky who tend to be more willing to try something new and not use the default. Wouldnt be suprised if the average 3rd party app user was on average, more technicly inclined than the average official app user. Its automatically true for the mods given having access to more tools via 3rd party.
I’m pretty “stupid” as well when it comes to online literacy, it’s definitely challenging me to use Lemmy (I’m on Jerboa right now, gonna try some other apps like Wefwef and Sync when it comes out to see how I like them) but I really like the community and the potential here. I’m gonna have to learn how to do a lot of new things here, like figure out the extent of where my log in works, how to organize the instances I want to go to and be a part of, and how to search through this content. But I’d rather get on the ball now so I can fully integrate and leave Reddit behind. It already felt like a cesspool before Spez did his thing, and it’s getting worse by the minute now that the 3rd party apps are down
Quora was great for a while and then one day I suddenly realised how much garbage was being pushed down my throat… Or at least that’s how I remember it, I never looked back after leaving
If you’re like me you don’t give a single shit about the whole Reddit - Lemmy discourse and you only care about freedom of speech and discussing online piracy, which is more than just free videogames.
Grow up, don’t pick fights and seed.
I think it’s important to care about the fact that Reddit and especially it’s users are being squeezed dry by a profit-hungry CEO with a net worth of already more than 10 million. Reddit is becoming bastardized and that’s not a good thing, we should be talking about that and protesting that, and realistically just moving away from that.
I don’t think it really matters in the long run. After that site goes public and they try and appeal to advertisers, that subreddit and NSFW in general will become unpalatable to advertisers for not being ‘brand safe’ regardless of legality of simple discussions. It might take a few years but migration is inevitable.
R/piracy is dead to me. Let those barnacles cling to a sunken ship. Agreed. Don’t update anything over there. Real pirates will end up here one way or another.
Pirates adapt or die. So at the very least you have increased your chances of survival. Don’t know if sharks will eat you though.
I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community’s Mafia.
Essentially mafias would run a mattress store which rarely would get much business as a front to explain where their money is coming from. Same with american sweet shops in the UK, some phone repair shops, car washes, etc
In germany it seems like a lot of döner"restaurants" and hairdressers are in cahoots with local gangs, I cant explain otherwise why there sometimes are three or more of them almost next to each other without going bankrupt. Like, in a street near my home there are three hairdressers all less than twenty meters from each other.
