Having a normal piracy related sub on reddit is actually a good thing.
Having a normal piracy related sub on reddit is actually a good thing.
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.
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.
You are actually right.
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.
Just like early reddit
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.
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
I think the only widely used site that has miraculously avoided enshittification has been wikipedia, because of a rock-solid ethical foundation.
Bold of you to assume it's any better than Quora right now.
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.
I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community’s Mafia.
True man I have come across more useful posts on lemmy in the past few days than reddit in a month or two.
Probably what will eventually happen is that content from here will get regularly reposted over there
Really doubt that, but what we can do, what they can't do that there is to help people more in a direct way here. Questions, requests, we can give links encoded in base64 so basically help people out in a better way.
I doubt the new mods that are there want to help piracy related things there, because that wouldn't help reddit admins.
I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community's Mafia.
Reddit essentially wants to profit off of user-generated content, and once a critical mass of users decide to leave or just not make content it will stagnate and dwindle in popularity. People are acting as if this hasn't happened before. It has: 2009-2010 was when an exodus of users from the past dominant social aggregator Digg formed a critical mass and happened upon Reddit.
The only important thing to these platforms like reddit and now lemmy is the content. If there is valuable info here, people will stay. If there isn't then it will fade away.
I second the megathread part. Abandon the old one so if anyone needs updated guides they will have to come here.
Amazing idea, they should 100% do this.
Amazing idea, they should 100% do this.
Just forget about reddit.
I don't care anymore to be honest. r/piracy was not and will not be the frontpage of piracy, and neither c/piracy will be.
This is just for convenience and chatting, nothing more. If you need any information, you can find everything online (for example: best torrent website).
Again, if you forget about r/piracy, you would not need to worry about it being active or not. Just focus on making this place better.
Finally, it is obvious that people will split between reddit and lemmy, but it doesn't matter much imo.
Don't take my comment wrong, it is just my opinion, and I am sure many will differ from me.
Take care! 🏴☠️