Shocked Pikachu face meme.
Silly question: is there a community for real, sailing piracy?
I imagine there are fan groups for Our Flag Means Death.
Got cancelled though, so don’t expect much growth
Not sure how many Somalis use Lemmy and how good their 5G is on the water
Make a lemmy instance for somalian pirates
Probably better than at&t in the middle of the city.
sad but true
There was that hot Somali who was Tik Tokking himself while boarding a cargo ship.
But he was enforcing a blockade enacted by his government within Yemeni territorial waters so unfortunately it wasn’t piracy.
You could pick them up from Twitter if you weren’t a bunch of reddit brained tweaking crackers
I don’t think the worlds remaining sea pirates are very technical, or smart at all for that matter.
If Piracy wasn’t a legit, high technician career, why would MIT offer a Pirate Certificate?
“Students who have completed Archery, Fencing, Pistol (Air Pistol or Rifle) and Sailing should send an email to…”
When a university education becomes a fantasy story meme. At least if you’re attending MIT, you’re probably multiclassed into some kind of technomancer.
I mean, it’s just a piece of paper for competing an otherwise random set of extracurricular activities. MIT students do memes all the time. Well, they use to. I think the administration is trying to crack down on fun stuff.
The BS in the last comment aside, what about the meme needs moderating? Was it a repost, or is the argument it makes unacceptable on reddit’s piracy board?
Seems like the way for reddit to “solve” this is to just close bad subs.
But that’s easily exploited, if people migrate to other subs and protesting the sub closures, those subs get worse and they need to be closed…
Oh no, reddit, did you just discover that you relied on your users to make your site good and by screwing them over you’ve made your entire business unsustainable at scale?
Also, somewhat related, is there a short snappy name for lemmy communities? Spme people call them subs out of habit but I don’t wanna do that, and "communities is four whole syllables, and ain’t nobody got time for that.
“solve”
to make your site good
unsustainable
I think you’re misunderstanding reddit’s goal. Over the past year, they have been in IPO mode. They don’t care about making the site good or attracting a healthy community. They want to cash out and are burning down any structures that are providing any resistance to that.
They don’t care about making the site good or attracting a healthy community.
They never cared about the “healthy” part either, just “big”. Reddit has been a cesspool for years and years and years, largely thanks to the moderators.
You’re right, they aren’t trying to make something sustainable. I guess I was giving them too much credit when I said that.
The problem they’re facing here is that if they can’t sustain even the appearance of a functioning site that investors might want to buy, then they fail at that too.
So maybe the best way to fix this is just to ride it out and not close the subs, but if they’re just full of users that have finally clocked why mods are needed and that the place sucks now, that’s also a bad look.
If the search engines start to realise that it’s a cesspit with nothing worth linking to anymore, then that really hits their metrics. I’ve jist realised I really need to get onto downloading my posts and deleting them.
Maybe daddy Elon can pay another $50b to buy Reddit and run that into the ground too.
Hopefully it costs them dearly. Kinda loke the whole Tumblr censorship fiasco and drastic fall in value but before they sell it put #FuckSpez in the poor house
Why do you care how it turns out financially for reddit? The outcome I’d wish for is that more people come to lemmy
Because I was generally enjoyed Reddit before being forced out by the API crap. I’m a creature of habit so tend to dislike change and as much as I’m generally liking Lemmy but I’m having to force myself to not check the app every time I get bored because I’ll just see the same posts 20 times in a day thanks to the relatively low level of interaction on the platform currently. Whenever I go looking for tech support online, it’s nearly always a reddit post from 2-8 years ago that has the answer but I don’t want to spend any amount of time on the site, particularly if I’m on my phone at the time since it means doing that annoying step of having to manually change “www” to “old” to make the site functional and readable. I guess I’m just feeling vengeful at yet another good (or some approximation of) ruined by yet another money-grubbing, power-hungry, self-important tosser.
Though I see what you’re saying… ish. I think at this point, we aren’t going to see a massive influx of users without the death of competing platforms like Reddit since there are enough people either happy to keep taking the punches or think sunshine shines out of Spez’s asshole. Frankly, we can do without the second kind of person but the first won’t do anything without a certain amount of persuasion and I reckon the sinking of the ol’ Reddit ship would be just enough of a toe-capped-boot up the nether regions to persuade.
I’ve seen “Lemmies”, I’ve also seen “sublemmies” which brings “subs” back on the table imo. Alternatives are /c/s, commus, com’s, etc.
I guess “subs” isn’t exactly a reddit specific term. I don’t even know if it started there tbh.
I’ve just realised there’s nothing wrong with taking some of the language they used, we are after all following the basic link aggregator format.
I like communities and sublemmies.
Coms/commus sounds forced and unnecessary, doubt it’ll catch on.
As for Lemmies, I think that should be a synonym for instances/servers. So, for example, the biggest Lemmy with the most sublemmies would be lemmy.world.
And of course, the users are lemmings.
“Communes”, populated by “commies”?
Commies.
I can’t decide if I hate that or love it.
Given the automotive slang term for “transmission”, I think this one has a chance
Subs still works in my mind. Subdirectories of all, or subscriptions… whichever way you want to think of it. I never really thought of subs as short for subreddits though, that was just convenient marketing based of those same terms.
Yeah subs and the mods are the doms, which works for my dyslexic, kinky ass.
I’m honestly surprised I’ve not seen anyone make that connection for a joke, thanks dyslexia, it’s pretty funny.
I’d like the name to be “community feed” and “feeds” for short. Reddit was always essentially a collective rss with voting weights. In this way “subs” would still work since one subscribes to the feeds.
Ultimately it’s something the devs need to encourage though
Coms?
Kbin calls them “magazines”, which has the advantage of being only three syllables but has the disadvantage of being a dumb name for them.
Yeah, I don’t see anyone adopting “mags” or “zines” either.
I’d adopt “zines” expressly to overuse it, make people cringe and demonstrate just how dumb it sounds. “mags” just makes me think of guns
Zines sounds like something Tom Haverford would come up with.
I have never had a comment make me feel this old.
-Signed, an old man who used to publish zines in the early 90s.
I’m not old enough to have published zines but I am old enough to know what they were, and I think it is actually a pretty apt name for it
Got dem Klips…
Piracy mods are few of the mods with a backbone that actually left reddit because of all the bullshit.
They probably realized the same skillset that set up their *arr config could be used to host a lemmy instance
If I had to guess ;)
I mean, even a lot of the bigger lemmy instances are of mixed thought on whether to federate with “piracy” instances (I want to say lemmy.world federated and defederated a couple times?).
Reddit Corporate is trying to go public. The piracy subs were going to be purged sooner than later and The Exodus was an opportunity to move the community en masse.
News reports have Reddit making the IPO push this year. Get ready for more DRAMA!
Will be really sad when the ransomware files get leaked on the IPO date lol
Wait, what ransomware files lol.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/19/tech/reddit-hackers-demands-api/index.html
The stuff BlackCat stole and haven’t released yet.
God, I forgot about that 🤣
If you follow the… “correct” channels for stuff like this, the user is going to release the info the moment that Reddit IPOs :).
Info about them (likely spying on their users) might really spook the insta-normie-scroll-on-the-reddit-app dorks.
If anything, it’s going to be a shit show even if BlackCat decides to hold on to it for a bit.
Maybe there is a place you could ask them about it specifically? I personally wouldn’t know.
Tbh I have no idea what a dark web even is 😏
“If you don’t like spez decision, then just open up the sub and leave!”
Mods left
“Where is all the mods?”
“They’re just butthurt they didn’t get any support hue hue hue”
Internet is a funni place.
I’ll be honest here: it was pretty fun to respond to people going “well if you hate it here so much, then just leave!“ To which I responded: “I did, check the sidebar.“ I stuck around for a few days after to help the mods with a few unruly threads, banned a few problem users on a different sub I was just sick of, then left forever.
Considering I found this comment on Reddit, I guess so.
Wao, most insightful post in a long time. Love it.
Love how they bellyache about the mods not doing a good enough job when they spent the final weeks of the June protest harassing the existing mods and and basically dismissing and disrespecting all the work we were doing for the past decade. They just expected things to go back to business as usual and the mods should just shut up and continue doing unpaid janitorial duties for the benefit of spez out of sheer momentum I guess? The scale of their entitlement is unreal.
Yeah, that was part of the reason I decided to leave. I mean, it wasn’t the only reason by far, but just another item to snowball into the “fuck this platform” that pushed me to leave.
The number of people that actively told me I was dumb, abusing power, and my moderating could be done by anyone was crazy.
Then they bitched about the moderation quality going down when 50% of the moderation actions walked out the door.
The r/piracy wiki died when I stopped updating it which is a shame, I used to recommend it to everyone. Now I pass them onto FMHY or awesome.
We do have our own piracy wiki here BTW!
Never heard of FMHY or awesome before, what are they? Could you point me there too? Thanks!
FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH https://fmhy.pages.dev/
Shakil-Shahadat’s awesome-piracy fork https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/
These are the most comprehensive lists of resources I’ve ever seen, thank you!
How could you?! As a Karen I demand the r/piracy manager and that he forces you to go back and work for free!
Oh, I wasn’t a mod of r/piracy, I modded r/noahgettheboat.
But yeah, the users feeling entitled to both have a sub that was taken care of, and to shit on the mods, was quite perplexing.
the users feeling entitled to both have a sub that was taken care of, and to shit on the mods, was quite perplexing.
New Reddit, in a nutshell. I really liked that sub back when things were good.
Welcome to Customer Service, you’re here forever.
I got banned this week from r/aboringdystopia for “spreading misinformation” by sharing a france24 link (credible established newspaper) debunking thegrayzone (whatever that is).
Here is the url I was trying to share.
“Clean it up janny!” Good on you for getting out
I always laughed when someone called us a “janitor” after we banned them. Like you understand in this analogy you are the trash being taken out, right?
It’s probably just because janitor is the term for a low level mod on 4chan.
“They do it for free!”
Not anymore, fucko. Have fun selling your ungovernable site.
Lol imagine still being on there
It’s infinitely more active than this site. The discussion is equally shitty. The difference is people here feel self righteous…
Thank goodness people on reddit aren’t self righteous lol
Lemmy isn’t any better, I’m only here because it works better on mobile
I don’t use Reddit as much as I used to since the API change. I also don’t use Lemmy much either. It feels different since that moment to me. Both feel quite divisive and don’t get me wrong, Reddit was divisive before the change but it feels like it’s got a lot worse.
What a goofy interpretation of that series of events. Reddit changes API which fucks over moderators -> mods protest and say if they can’t use these tools they can’t moderate -> when API restrictions come into effect, mods either leave over moderating being way harder now or basically not being able to mod
Why is that final step so hard for this person to believe? All of Reddit moderation wasn’t lying to people for fun
Also wasn’t the sub basically taken over by one mod who spends their time working their way into as many moderator positions as possible and then not doing anything with them? Looking at their post history they’ve made like a dozen posts in the last month and one of them was asking to mod another sub.
Why is that final step so hard for this person to believe? All of Reddit moderation wasn’t lying to people for fun
You are so naive to believe they even were aware of step 1 lol.
They just were mad at their favorite subreddits being closed against their will, that and just being inconsiderate pricks.
What amused me back then is that in most of the subreddits I was subbed there were polls where mods were gonna act as the results said, (we were basically running against the time, so there were not very many alternatives for this kind of democracy, I add this note because many people were very mad and argued they never got to nor realize there was an ongoing poll lol) and more users approved to keep the protests and regardless these cunts were saying that this was mod’s power abuse lol.
Dead internet theory
that’s the piracy sub… the userbase was pissed at the idiot mods taking the sub down for the API protest, which reddit was obviously super happy about the pirate sub closing down.
i’m pretty sure they regularly railed against the idiot mods to the point that the mods said fuck this and left
The mods closed the pirate sub and Reddit reopened it, so now Reddit is liable for it.
That’s basically the whole reason an entire instance popped up dedicated to the topic (db0) AND its main community is the 10th largest in the lemmyverse.
The main mods and a whole lot of people came here.
I guess this is how they’ll learn about the effects of ruining the experience for moderators and content creators, a majority of Reddit’s scabs are consumers so naturally when creators and mods leave quality goes in the toilet.
which reddit was obviously super happy about the pirate sub closing down.
Oddly it wouldn’t seem entirely like that since when it shut down they basically forced it to reopen. Which is funny since they dislike it so much, guess the traffic and ad revenue is more important to them.
Oddly it wouldn’t seem entirely like that since when it shut down they basically forced it to reopen.
completely right i overlooked that rather important detail. chain/mass emailing all mods at once without really thinking it through maybe?
Who cares about mods tbh
If i couldn’t use infinity, i couldn’t use reddit
That is very true, Reddit without Infinity is a miserable experience.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I MUST COOONSSOOOOOOOMMMM, I MUST FORFEIT AND WAIVE ALL MY RIGHTERINOOOOS TO THE COOOORPORATIONS AAAAAAAH IMMMMM CONSOOOOOOOMINNNNNG.
Thanks for the laugh m8! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like it here on Lemme. I feel pretty comfy. And most of you here are tech savvy. And if not, at least you have some level of basic true understanding of how technology works., Unlike those impostor syndrome redditors. And I suppose it’s a plus that corporations don’t hunt us down for discussing piracy.
the larger we get, the more it will get fucked by ai bots, corporations, and shitty content creators
The best way to fight it is to simply be unmarketable as a community. This is how Verizon ended up having to sell Tumblr for less than 1% of the price they paid for it like only 3 years later. If the cost outweighs the benefit, fewer people will bother trying.
How do we do that without becoming vulgar, sexist bigots?
Have it as a distributed network of smaller instances, rather then having everyone pile on to 2 or 3 big ones. It’s easier for admins to notice the bots if their site populations remain relatively small, and it’s easier to defederate from sites that are enabling the bots if they’re not also home to 80% of users.
Pornography, leftism, and piracy.
The term, “enshitification” is getting bandied about a lot. But the bots and corporations are an inevitable part of capitalism. Make money at all costs, never be satisfied with what you have, and treat everybody that isn’t you like a stepping stone.
Scammers and sociopathic c-levels are missing something fundamentally human. A complete lack of empathy. But this has always been a part of our species. The difference now is that we have a system that dramatically rewards that sickness. And that’s not even getting into how being able to be evil at scale is going to make the next few decades interesting.
whats a c level
Otherwise known as the C-suite executives. CEO, CTO, CFO, ect…
Oi @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ! Are you one of the Reddit Piracy mods? Or are one of your brethren here from Reddit?
I must say I find Piracy, Linux and the Star Trek communities have had a rip-roaringly successful switch over.
I much prefer Lemmy. I have the opportunity to call you a “dick head” whereas on Reddit there’s no way Spez would ever see me calling him a “dick head”.
That makes me feel powerful and I become engorged.
So, anyway, are you one of the Reddit mods?
P.S. I can’t post to this community from Lemmy.World.
P.S. I can’t post to this community from Lemmy.World.
Strange, there are quite a few comments from that instance
P.S. I can’t post to this community from Lemmy.World.
Thats because they’re reddit-brained over there too
Coming from a Stalinist russaboo, that’s something, I guess.
Are you a fan of the IS-2 tank?
Reddit does not tolerate Russophilia of any sort. Like China mentioning the most benign cultural things about it gets brigaded.
They’re obsessed with shit like at the end of Band of Brothers when they respect the Nazi general bc he’s also part of the military & how Hitler could have won on half the history subs. AskHistorians is okay
You are the Redditor. Good day sir! Harrumph!
I’m more a fan of the T-34 followed by the Sherman if we’re talking about ww2 tanks. Whats your favorite tank, you Trotskyite limey?
Why the T-34? Of all tanks. Any particular variant or just any T-34?
I’m particular to the T-34-85 variant.
Well, I can’t fault you for that one. If you were going to hit me with a 1942-43 variant, I might have tried to persuade you to the 85. That’s a badass T-34. The rest of them are garbage imo
Oh I love Soviet and German tanks from WWII most of all so I’m a big fan of the IS-2 and T-34 for Soviets and the Panzer IV, Sturmgeschütz III and Tiger I for Germans.
I build 1:35 scale models and my last build was an Elefant.
Well that’s a fun hobby. I used to make model planes when I was a child. I recall making a P-38 and an A-10 before entering junior high but then never really getting into it again.
Let’s not judge people only from the instance they’re registered on.
Why not?
True, it’s not right to call lemmy.world users “reddit-brained”.
