I'm concerned about this comment in the linked Reddit post.
What does it mean, "same mods"? What about "safety"? Can someone clarify?
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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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.
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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.
That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too.
tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case cause after reddit's self-made implosion with the API access debacle, the majority of us migrated to (fediverse instances such as) mastodon and here
Just wanted to say thank you for your service over the two platforms.
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.
If we get instance sponsors it will probably in the instance sidebar, but for now we don't quite need them
Fuck ads, they're everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.
What is a reddit? /s
I tried to find reddit on duckduckgo to answer this quesiton, but I didn't get any results :(
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That's some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit's default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.
The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod's PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.
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It’s harder for corruption and lawyers to target multiple instances rather than one centralized location
Love the recruiting that you all are doing in there.
Let no crisis go to waste :D
one person's footgun is another's opportunity lol
- Microsoft Crowdstrike and Linux
- Unity and Godot
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Man, what a joke Reddit has become after the 3rd party exodus, seems like most good subs went to shit.
Luckily this lead us to Lemmy and the Fediverse, which -- in my opinion -- is more akin to Aaron Swartz's original vision.
He would've had a Lemmy instance running secretly in a server closet somewhere on the MIT campus.
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Out of curiosity, is our megathread the same as theirs? If so, it might be time to make our own independently of theirs.
So we aren't using an unauthorised copy?
How baller would it be to pirate a piracy megathread
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Check the wiki. We already have our own
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Shit site has gone to shit. Shocker.
Least corrupt reddit mod
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