Mastodawn

I can't even wrap my head around this. Days ago the discussion on /r/piracy was about if it was worth continuing to protest, knowing that reddit likely hated the community and would actually prefer if a piracy-focused community left.

And now they are forcing other mods into control to force it back open.

A piracy subreddit. Devoted entirely to discussing illegal activity. Forced by the company to stay open, because they are that desperate for the traffic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14briu5/hey_rpiracy_reddit_admins_demodded_the_captain/

Hey /r/piracy. Reddit admins de-modded the captain and put a sword to the mod-team's necks to re-open. It seems they really demand valuable input from pirates. I look forward to you to taking this tacit Reddit endorsement of digital piracy to heart in the coming days!

I don't know how long I'll remain around. I seem to have caught the eye of Sauron and I'm not the top mod anymore. Hopefully the remaining mods...

reddit

Rod Hilton Jun 17, 2023

Meanwhile the original mod has set up a lemmy instance and made it clear they're lifting all the rules they had to follow to play nice with reddit corporate in order to not get shut down altogether. And as a result, the main content contributors have moved over anyway.

/r/piracy was the first subreddit that I saw actually directing people to the lemmy replacement in the message about the community being private, and their migration has been the most effective by far.

Finn Smith Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton Do you have a link to the lemmy?

Marco Lodola Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton Well, time to move

🌲-alist Jun 17, 2023

People are shocked when a manipulative and censorious platform behaves in manipulative and censorious ways against them

Fritobugger Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton now I need to find them on lemmy!

Justin Fitzsimmons Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton oh no, that sounds awful that they've created their own lemmy instance with no rules that prevent them from doing piracy! can you let me know where it is so I can block it from my network?

Andres Jalinton Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton
It's such a counter intuitive move and I love seeing the desperation as they fail to notice that people does the network, not the other way around.

Luis Villa Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton @CatherineFlick I read this as /r/privacy the first time through, which made the punch line when I clicked through even better

FirefighterGeek

@rodhilton I've heard some groups are now only allowing content featuring "Sexy Pictures of John Oliver" -- and the results are apparently fantastic.

FirefighterGeek

@rodhilton Regardless - at this point even if he wins, he loses. They've demonstrated to the investment community why supporting an IPO for reddit is a losing idea.

Deus Jun 17, 2023

Yes, that u/spez. The guy who moderated r/jailbait. Also known as Steve Huffman, CEO of reddit (former r/jailbait moderator.)

Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton Hoping that ends up as a lawsuit against Reddit. Haven't they now technically made available pirated content?

Rod Hilton Jun 17, 2023

@uliwitness no one of the rules was always no direct links to pirated material. It was more discussion-focused, links to resources, etc.

Though that's one of the rules that's being lifted on lemmy, last I saw magnet links are allowed now.

vascorsd Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton @uliwitness will make it much easier for law enforcement to bully them to shutdown or persecute people there. The rules were actually good since it allowed for the existence of the community. Hosting and managing a community of such sensitive topic without the protection of a big corporate will be hard and will not survive long.

Musser Jun 17, 2023

@vascorsd @rodhilton @uliwitness Without good moderation tools on Reddit r/piracy most likely won’t be able to keep those rules there either.

I think we all can be pretty sure the music, gaming and movie industries biggest focus will be on Reddit with millions of users rather than a lemmy instance which isn’t even remotely close in user count.

mistyislands Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton

https://lemmy.world/post/217257

Is this the replacement for the reddit r/piracy? - Lemmy.world

Is r/piracy the main sub or is this one?

Rafe Culpin Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton Wild speculation: They were ordered to keep it open so the police could track the users?

Rod Hilton Jun 17, 2023

@RafeCulpin plausible

Musser Jun 17, 2023

@RafeCulpin @rodhilton My guess it’s their investors whose ordered this or spez came up with yet another brilliant idea to upset their money generating users even more. Even subreddits which have no legal issues have been threatened to get the mods replaced if they don’t open the subs up again.

@rodhilton @binarytango

J.P. Wing Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton “The Good Wife” had it right when they spoofed Reddit as “Scabbit”.

verified_purple

@rodhilton I'm amazed that, out of any other subreddit that they might have chosen, they chose r/piracy. Surely companies that want to pay for advertisement would love that!

Archie 🔜 the fediverse Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton /u/spez right now:

Zoyd Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton File sharing is not illegal.

2342 Jun 17, 2023

@rodhilton the mod calls that a troll post here: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]er0.com/t/45504/My-r-piracy-troll-post-just-hit-reddit-frontpage

My /r/piracy troll post just hit reddit frontpage! - piracy - kbin.social

I'm also going viral on mastodon. WTF is going on?! :D

Harksaw Jun 18, 2023

@rodhilton I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: a short drop and a sudden stop.

Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻Jun 18, 2023

@rodhilton lmao