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Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.

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[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

This could not be any funnier. Please reddit, take legal control of the piracy subreddit, right as you take the experienced mod team out. I'm sure everything will go fantastic.

[–] Iconoclast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha what the fuck I really did NOT think they would do that to r/piracy of all things. Ah well fuck them and their shitty IPO. I‘m here with you guys for good, the structure of the fediverse suits our purposes and community better anyway.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I would imagine that can lead to legal troubles endorsing r/piracy willingly?

Accepting it is one thing, but forcing it to open is entirely different.

[–] SchrodingersDude@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First post on Lemmy thanks to this shit! Struggling to understand how a lot of it works still, but absolutely fuck this nonsense from Reddit

[–] Laser@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

As a user not running your own instance, it's very similar to Reddit.

[–] amansrevenger@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah in the antiwork subreddit my comments are instantly shadowbanned, my old comments in other subs show up , reddit is in major emergency mode apparently.

Good

[–] twei@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

naw, that was the nail in the coffin for me. i just deleted all of my posts, will probably also delete my account soon.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If reddit decides to moderate the Piracy subreddit directly, does that mean that they'll be responsible to respond to DMCA requests? If so, that's going to be a shitshow all in itself.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh shit, I didn't even notice what subreddit this was. Please PLEASE someone kick down their door (with legal actions) over this.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Imagine fucking up that hard that pirates endorse DMCA

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Oh my. It has begun.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Pretty ironic text. It's in part because of the trust put in moderators that they feel the need to protest / protest following that obligation.

[–] A2PKXG@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh thank God, i first thought that the reddit navy entered Lemmy. i don't care about what happens on reddit, in fact, i'e be happy if they'd harm it.

But: can't mods nuke the subreddit history before they're demoded?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

reddit will porobably undelete anything like that anyway

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, but it would cause them extra work. Just say you volunteer to open up again and take the lead, then go for it 🤭

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Move all the information here and run power delete suite on you reddit accounts while you still can with links to join-lemmy.org, I think that will hurt them quite a bit.

[–] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I deleted all my comments/posts and they rolled them back :/

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't believe it. They're becoming real motherfuckers right now. They seem hell bent on getting that IPO.

[–] damipereira@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone would have to look at the terms and conditions. It's possible there's a clause like "anything you write is ours" in legal speak.

[–] saturnarc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't matter to GDPR, people have sued over much less, right to be forgotten is a thing, and you don't need a lawyer to do it. Could be worth everyone sending in a request to inundate them and they'll have to sift through them to follow the law correctly. Once received, any valid and legal request must be actioned within 60 days, and most companies take 15-30 just figuring out how to do so. We don't have to flood their legal department much to make them lose track of something, and if any of you are EU citizens, your request must be honored.

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

How can i request the complete deletion of my data under eu law?

[–] pillems@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I say transfer as much as you can over here, then nuke the sub completely. The source of knowledge are mostly here now and everything else can be rebuild. We are pirates, we don't yield easily and can survive anywhere.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mods can't nuke the sub, the only thing anyone can do is delete their own user content. However, even then reddit can probably restore it.

[–] pillems@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured. If websites like unddit, ceddit, removeddit etc was able to recover deleted posts and comments, I'm sure the admins can do so too.

But we're also a crafty bunch. There must be a way to destroy the sub where reddit can't restore it properly. Like how a user can mass edit their own comments/posts before deleting them, so when reddit restore them back they would only show the edits instead of the originals. Basically use reddit's own feature against them if we can.

Even small thing like getting rid of the megathread and wiki would discourage people to go into the sub. It's information that people after, if we get rid of those then there's no point in going anymore. Slower death and a little anticlimactic that way though.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, they only store the last version on the live system. So if you just overwrite it with gibberish and then or don't delete it, only the backups will have your true comments.

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m seeing recent comments that dispute this. Users who used power delete suite have discovered their comment history restored against their will

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

AFAIK all restored comments came from subs that went open again, because removal plugins can‘t remove comments and posts from private subs.

[–] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remaining mods should just do what r/pics has done. Change the subreddit's topic to posting sexy pictures of John Oliver.

The subreddit is open so you complied. Reddit didn't dictate that you keep or change any rules so changing the subreddit rules so that only posts about sexy John Oliver pictures are allowed would have the same effect as the blackout.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about posting pictures of Lemmy from motorhead as a pirate?

On topic for piracy and a link to the new home for the community.

[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There. I made a thing.

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I wish you didn‘t. God is this awful lol.

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You misspelled glorious

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

You like pain, don‘t you?

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I guess its time to flood r/piracy with magnet links as soon as the new jannies open it.

[–] frozengriever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also worth flooding them with ~~links~~ a map to where they can board the new ship where the 🏴‍☠️ flag still flies high.

[–] parski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Archive and delete is the only language those scurvy dogs speak.

[–] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will simply restore the content.

Users have reported they are restoring comments they deleted using Power Delete Suite.

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edit your content, dont just delete

[–] Bjoern_Tantau@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could undo that as well. My current plan is to get all my data via GDPR request, host it on my server so that my useful posts and comments don't get lost forever and then order them to delete all my stuff via a GDPR request.

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can they? It doesnt seem so simple because they have no way of knowing which posts are edited in good faith vs not.

They can try to undo comments which sre repeated 10x+ times or something I guess, but editing users comments seems like a really bad move

[–] Bjoern_Tantau@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

They shouldn't be able to know which posts were deleted in good faith either. But here we are. I bet undeleting user content is a big fat GDPR violation. Just gotta find someone who cares enough to sue.

[–] airportline@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or simply remove Rule 3

[–] Bischob@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't the rules be irrelevant anyway if the sub is no longer properly moderated?