Hey y’all, In the past I had arranged that /f/piracy in raddle.me would be the fallback forum for /r/piracy, but I recently noticed that raddle.me has disabled new user registrations and that would be a problem in case we need it.

And with reddit about to go public, it might be needed.

Instead of trying to spin up my own lemmy instance, I was thinking if I could get a mod position in this forum and specify it as the official /r/piracy fallback instead.

Feel free to PM me in reddit for verification.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlM
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    3 years ago

    To echo some of the thoughts of those below:

    This was one of the first communities I made here on lemmy, because I was disappointed in /r/piracy for two reasons:

    • Removals of piracy links, content, guides, etc.

    I realize most of that is unavoidable self-policing, because reddit is a US-based company that must adhere to the US’s draconian copyright and IP laws. Lemmy is self-hostable, and doesn’t have that problem. Outside of illegal or harmful content, there’s no reason for us to remove anything piracy-related. So a lot of those bans and removals are probably not the mod’s fault, its work reddit requires you to do to have a presence there.

    • A “soft” / “pickme” approach to piracy.

    A lot of people on /r/piracy either support or half-support centralized services like netflix and spotify. Copy-leftists like myself believe these services are really harmful to keeping data alive and shared. People that either never torrented in the first place, or that have moved off torrenting, make one less seeder, or adder of new content. I can’t even find some newer documentaries and music on torrents, because netflix and spotify have successfully captured and privatized that data, and new people no longer have a pro-sharing mentality: Netflix lets them have an “I got mine” mentality.

    So counter to /r/piracy, !piracy@lemmy.ml has a strict anti-centralized services rule.

    At the same time, I welcome genuine pro-piracy mods from reddit who would like to get started over here, and do a better job building and growing this community more than I ever could. If you sticky a post or put something in the sidebar of /r/piracy having this as a backup, I’ll mod you. Or you could just make another piracy community here, something like /c/piracynews and have control over that community.

    cc @Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml

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      3 years ago

      Unfortunately, point A is unavoidable. We already got contacted by the reddit admins with an almost impossible demand (police not only new stuff, but also historical stuff) so we had to take a very draconian approach to avoid takedown.

      While I agree with point B myself, being a staunch proponent of copylefts, it doesn’t make sense to censor people for not being as radical as we area. It’s by rubbing noses with us that they will change their tune.

      To be clear, I am generally not against being more explicit anti-centralized, but while growing /r/piracy, it didn’t make sense.

      At the same time, I welcome genuine pro-piracy mods from reddit who would like to get started over here, and do a better job building and growing this community more than I ever could. If you sticky a post or put something in the sidebar of /r/piracy having this as a backup, I’ll mod you.

      Done. Check the the sidebar in https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/

      The main objective here is to be able to redirect people over and make sure we don’t splinter the community if and when reddit takes action against /r/piracy.

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        3 years ago

        Lemmy is the place you’d want to move people to in case of a greater calamity as federated Lemmy is by nature more community controlled than Reddit or any centralized alternative could literally ever be.

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          3 years ago

          There’s other alternatives, like Aether or my own lemmy instance. But I tend to try the path of least resistance first.

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            3 years ago

            Aether is fine but development is pretty dead compared to lemmy and it’s fucking Electron.

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                3 years ago

                Also I’m not completely sure their democratic/reputation system actually works in practice, since it has never been enabled.

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        3 years ago

        Cool, I got you modded now.

        BTW if anyone else would like to be modded and help grow this community, lmk.

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          3 years ago

          Cheers! I’ll make a sticky in /r/piracy soon to make people update their bookmarks and maybe we can have some early adopters here as well

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        3 years ago

        This is great news =).

        I find the megathread on reddit really useful, are you involved in making it? Would it be possible for it to be posted/pinned here whenever it is updated?