Almost 5K Pirates migrated to lemmy. We're now 4th in lemmy communities browser!
Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit.
For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/
That's awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I'm not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we're probably safer here.
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lol. The Tortuga reference reminded me of this for some reason.
Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there'll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there's no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn't this one
The instance owner is an anarchist that doesn't care about copyright. We aint shutting down unless he gets sued, and the case also needs standing. As long as we dont link directly to pirated content, we're fine.
The risk is significantly reduced if the instance its running on and the domain host is in a country that isnt legally obligated to honor DMCA takedowns. Wothout doing research, this instance likely is in a major country, and therefor not its permanent location because of this. but whats different than reddit is we have the capability to host the servers ourself where we want.
Once(if) its taken down, another instance can be run from a more friendly country and DMCA notices wont have any weight legally.
The only problem then would be popular home instances going excommunicado with the pirate instance like that bee one did recently
I'm assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the "fediverse"
It's probably at the same level of difficulty to set up your own seedbox (i.e. in a VPS or even your own hardware) as it is to set up your own actual Lemmy instance.
Merelly figuring out the fediverse is way less complicated than either of those.
I am considering setting one up so I moved over, yup.
Pirates are used to migrating en masse
Dead site? Wheres the next one?
has been a part of piracy since it started
NGL, I'm pretty excited about that happening, imagina a pirate paradise.
I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit's fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.
FUCK YOU SPEZ!
I couldn't even roundabout refer to piracy most of the time.
I think Lemmy has prospects to be even better than Reddit. Let's drink go it!
I wish a lot of the other subreddits staying dark had a plan like this too.
The other subs dont want to bother with the hassle of moving. They just want a "show of force" without actually having backup plans. Piracy subreddit is dying, the other subs can choose to stay, but we have no choice, we had to move.
Paraphrasing Louis Rossmann, they're taking a weekend break from their abusive partner hoping it will teach them a lesson.
For piracy, it's pure unshackling. It's great!
Yep, a lot of them are just missing the opportunity
I feel Lemmy fits better with the pirate way of life.
Long live Lemmy and screw reddit
Posting from kbin. Just here to celebrate with y'all.
I am having a difficult time reaching kbin from lemmy but I'm glad it works better in reverse
Reddit: Constantly getting worse. Lemmy: Under active development and (hopefully) improving over time.
I know which community I want to invest my time in.
Yeah the developer is currently working on improving the federation in the other direction. Reaching other instances from kbin works well already
@db0 KBin is newer than Lemmy and is having a struggle adapting to the Reddit Migration.
Migrating from Reddit to Lemmy was easier than migrating from Netflix to a seedbox.
I think with users who know the basics about internet piracy, switching to a Lemmy instance wasn't difficult.
ngl one of the main reasons i went with this instance is because i figure pirates have experience keeping a server running
Drastically smaller chance of things getting taken down here to boot. You'd practically have to get the host of your server up in arms, which is a lot harder to do than a grumpy Reddit admin pressing the ban button.
Community makes things grate, I believe in it, so let's go lemmy.
If this place was to shutdown I think I'd be lost, hopefully we don't die down.
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Lemmy.ml is a bit problematic because of ties to Tankies, or so I've heard. I'm avoiding all communities from that instance.
Good thing about the fediverse is that that's basiclly impossible lol
Fuck spez
Funny, how this sub and post was displayed as the first one after completing my registration on kbin :'D
Yeah it's still weird getting used to how this fediverse thing works.
I do feel like Im in some kind of multiverse alright. Its new and weird, but also quite nice, knowing that many platforms are connected.
That's amazing!
Y'arr! I hope this shall be a safer port of call than Reddit.
Avast yee scallywag! A fair wind blows in our favor
I understand the importance of maintaining history, but I'm curious about what historical info is there that you think is worth saving? News about sites/trackers will be available elsewhere. We'd just be losing the Reddit-local community comments.
In my opinion, the main thing that would be useful would be bringing info over from the wiki, or stuff that should have been on it. Guides and such.
Unfortunately the info would need to be migrated manually right now. There's a decent number of posts across the fediverse right now looking for people to make a bot or script to copy content from reddit over to the fediverse. Apparently no suitable tools exist for automating it yet, and I'd imagine the Reddit API changes are just going to complicate efforts as the tool would probably need to use web scraping rather than the API.
Greetings from Kbin, get fucked /u/Spez.
Oh plebian, thou cannot fathom thein betters understanding. Bow to the spez
Fuck u/spez
Not all of us are on Lemmy, but you got the spirit.
kbin gang
Aye
Nice, I just joined too and am already enjoying this community and the whole lemmy thing in general. Some weird stuff about it like instances defederating each other is new to me, but I think I can get used to posting more on here.
so glad i found you guys again !!!
Im still figuring all these things out but this is great news!
It’s the great era of pirates!!
I was always more of a lurkeron reddit, can I just say I´m glad that /Piracy is going to continue to exist in some form.
Hi all, just came over from Reddit. Nice to see that the community is continuing :) Feels like the piracy scene has been hit a few times now with Rarbg finishing and the API changes, I will carry my duty and try to share the word where the community is at! Perhaps this is just a good fresh start and people like oldfart will find a new better platform to share their treasures on. :)
god bless
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free! You are a pirate!
Reddit was never a great place for piracy because of central corporate ownership, the fediverse is much more free.
this layouts gonna take alot of getting used to compared to reddits comment section wise
Its not too bad, assuming you were used to the layout of old.reddit
oh yes, staying on old reddit.. new reddit layout was/is awful.
Arrrrr!
Proud of y'all <3
Closed my years-old reddit for good and came here. Great to see that similar communities are taking shape so fast. We don’t need Reddit.
I'm here from lemmy.pt but I'm celebrating 🥳
Yarrr!
Is there any way we can import all the data from r/piracy to here lemmy?
Honestly, is there something to import that isn't outdated already?
i didn't came here on my own, the mods were stupid enough to be pro blackout assholes so they had to go private with my favorite sub reddit.
In that case you've missed the point. The idiots are running reddit and the pro-blackout guys were trying to get them back to sanity.
But with the way the Reddit admins are handling the website, you wouldn't have had that sub for much longer anyway. That's the whole point of the blackout in the first place. Don't blame the protesters. Blame the admins. They're the ones with the power to change things.
Nice
I'll tip my bottle of rum to that yarharhar
This is fantastic. I hope the fediverse instances can keep up with the load. lemmy.dbzer0.com is struggling right now and instances are not syncing with each other.
Can someone help me understand if the lemmy developers are really neo-Nazis? I would not want to have anything to do with communists and nazis
You're worried about supporting communists/nazi's, but supporting reddit that is largely funded by a Chinese Conglomerate and has a CEO that used to moderate a borderline child porn sub wasn't a problem? Kind of an arbitrary line to draw, don't you think?
largely funded by a Chinese Conglomerate
Yes, it's unpleasant. Nevertheless, Reddit allows writing about the Uyghur genocide and dropped a nuclear bomb on Russian disinformation when it banned Russian domains
CEO that used to moderate a borderline child porn sub wasn’t a problem
I didn't know about it until this API crisis
Realistically, all large social networks have disgusting practices. But when I use open source software, I don't want to have any ties to Nazis and communists
Tgey are literally the opposite of Nazis. They main two developers are Marxists. Henve the .ml wich stands for Marxist leninist.
can we make this our mainstream sub and reddit one the side sub?
That's just a matter of perspective. If enough people use it primarily, that's what it'll be
Just use reddit for the real copyright infringement content. Lol
How do you sort the browser by largest community? It doesn't appear to sort that way by default.
I use https://lemmyverse.net/communities
It has an option to sort by "subscribers". According to that this community is the 25th largest.
Neat. I tried getting into fediverse a couple time during the last 3 years and everytime I'd get bored after a day or two.
This time it feels different though. I never imagined there would be this much activity on here. We really oughta thank spez lmao
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Precisely! And unlike Twitter or Facebook you're not reliant to other specific people.
Reddit have us an opening we wouldn't have had otherwise.
I think lemmy has the potential to break the fediverse wide open.
It became pretty much permanent for me, now I'm more on kbin the last few days than Reddit (like at least a 10:1 ratio in terms of minutes spent), where I only use reddit if I need some info that can't be found anywhere else and that AI can't answer me. I'm pretty sure even the real "2 days" folks will come here full-time as soon as the API changes go through and most apps for Reddit stop working.
Federation really helps too because here I get an active flow of interesting posts from this and different instances and communities unlike Reddit where you scroll r/popular once and you're done for the day.
I also tend to write much more extensive and informative comments on here than on Reddit, which probably comes with the territory, but I've seen it with other people too.
yea most definetely. I think the initial momentum is important, with peopel more willing to get used to the new platform and UI lol
Each day that passes, your brain makes a wider and wider path for any new format, the place and its' different rhythm become more familiar and comfortable.
Personally, I hated Mastodon, its architecture is just no user-friendly and mass adoption is very unlikely. I'm loving Lemmy tbh!
This is my experience as well. albeit my other experiences on the fediverse were with mastodon; and the twitter-style of doing things is much harder to feel like you're getting the content you're after or feeling like there's a lot going on.