If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they’ve got another thing coming…

  • Blackbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I hate to say this but reddit probably doesn’t care if r/piracy stays dark. We were probably one of the subs they were hoping to get rid of.

    With that said i support the movement. The biggest loss is the institutional knowledge since we can’t just search for an old post

    Is there a mirror of the sub? It’d be great if we could mirror the content here.

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      It’s why this blackout has been a blessing, since piracy days on reddit were numbered anyways. I’m glad we got to get our community elsewhere before being randomly banned before there was an opportunity to regroup.

      Have had many lost communites like megaupload back in the day that reddit killed off. With how helpful the piracy community has been with stuff like the wiki Reddit would have set their eyes on us anyways in the long run.

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      Archive.org probably has backed up a lot of stuff. regardless, I’m kinda sad tho that I promised someone I’d send them a file but i procrastinated and this happened, so I can’t find the original comment anymore rip

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      I agree fully except with the mirror aspect. Mirroring is what tends to cause the dissolution of alternatives like Lemmy. It makes it too convenient and a target by bigger powers. It is federated but that doesn’t mean it’s invincible. It would be smart to keep it separate and try to let it become its own thing. Grassroots promotion may be the way to go. I mean, I agree, mirroring would be nice and convenient, but we have to be smart and use tact as well.

      We have something wonderful here. Let’s keep it going long and strong! 😀

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      Remember Lemmy’s growth starts with you, post your favourite things, talk about your favourite things.

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    Hello everyone! This is my first Lemmy post. :)

    I 100% support a permanent shutdown of r/Piracy, but at the same time, I think it would be very useful if the contents of r/Piracy were made available elsewhere for archival purposes. Could the sub be temporarily reopened in read-only mode to allow for it to be scraped? Or is it already available somewhere?

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        Yes, only for the purposes of archival and so people who aren’t aware of /r/piracy being reborn like a phoenix on lemmy can find us. But, never unrestricted.

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        We’ll probably need more than one day if the archive includes all of the threads (which also include a lot of good information) and not just the wiki. There is this Reddit importer that can take post and comment data scraped from the Reddit API and import it into Lemmy, but because of the volume of data, it will take a while before the scraping is complete by July 1st.

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          I’m not going to re-import /r/piracy into lemmy. I am probably going to put /r/piracy into restricted mode eventually

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            I agree, r/piracy should not be added into Lemmy. It should be separate. Perhaps some kind of archive could be made at some point and made into a torrent or hosted somewhere. Restricted would probably be fine.

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    I support an indefinite blackout. Pirates are tech-savvy enough to make the Fediverse into a proper new home for themselves. Edit: pressed enter too soon.

    • DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      Yes, piracy forced me to keep adapting to new stuff whether I wanted to or not. We are made for this.

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    Glad to see that /r/piracy has some fucking balls. 48 hours won’t do a damn thing. It makes me sad because I love Reddit. Always have, but this shriveled up dickbag, Spez, royally fucking over 3rd party devs by pricing out their apps and even removing the ability to have NSFW content be viewable on their apps is a royal slap in the face in the highest degree.

    I understand that as a business you need to turn a profit (I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Capitalist), but completely pricing 3rd party devs out of the market and making mods (who are all VOLUNTEERS btw) use the bullshit, clunky ass first party modding tools aint it. I heard rumor that they would allow 3rd party modding tools and bots via LTT, but I trust nothing.

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      Reddit is nothing without the community. It was just a place to gather, to congregate and have a discussion.

      That can move elsewhere. and reddit can be left to rot.

      🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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    /r/Piracy and /r/FMHY were one of my favorite communities of Reddit, I’m so glad they are here in Lemmy!

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    I’m here for this, and appreciate the r sub making a stand.

    I do hope the wiki can be set up here. I’m an old woman and I need a lot of support whilst sailing the high seas.

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    I like that it is linked directly from the Private Community message on Reddit. I wish more subreddit picked a new official place and linked it, that way people would actually try something else instead of waiting the end of the blackout.

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    I mean blacking out forever should be what r/piracy is doing. If r/piracy reopens, then the admins are more incentivised to ban it, whereas if it remains private, we can still have the description up to redirect visitors to this lemmy, and since the subreddit is private, admins couldn’t care less about it since there is no legitimate DMCA claims for a privated subreddit. They might still eventually ban it, but being private will put the act of banning r/piracy into a lower priority, so the lemmy redirect lasts longer.

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        Interesting point, but I don’t they admins care about rules anymore. They just do whatever they feel like. Sure they can give it to someone else, then what? Change the description to “Piracy is Bad”? Thats the same as getting banned. The way I see it, r/piracy is getting banned sooner or later, but privating it will make us less of a priority to admins and its giving us more time to recuit people.

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      I always liked this one from Peter Pan:

      Ohhhh! A pirate’s life is a wonderful life

      A-rovin’ over the sea

      Give me a career as a buccaneer

      As the life of a pirate for me

      Ohhhh! The life of a pirate for me

      Ohhhh! A pirate’s life is a wonderful life

      They never bury your bones

      For when it’s all over, a jolly sea rover

      Drops in on his friend Davy Jones

      Ohhhh! His very good friend Davy Jones

      Ohh, a pirate’s life is a wonderful life

      You’ll find adventure and sport

      But live every minute for all that is in it

      The life of a pirate is short

      Ohh, the life of a pirate is short

      Ohh, a pirate’s life is a wonderful life

      Without a care to behold

      You carry a gun and a jug of rum

      And your pockets are loaded with gold

      Oh! Your pockets are loaded with gold

      Ohh, a pirate’s life is a wonderful life

      “But not forever,” they say

      When your neck’s in a noose and you can’t get loose

      For the life of a pirate you’ll pay

      Ohh, the life of a pirate you’ll pay

      Ohh, a pirate’s life is a wonderful life

      Without a care to behold

      You dig for pleasure to find some treasure

      Your pockets are loaded with gold

      Oh! Your pockets are loaded with gold