Rod HiltonJun 17, 2023

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...

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Show threadRod HiltonJun 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.

Show threadJustin Fitzsimmons
@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?
Jun 17, 2023 at 11:10pmWeb