Fuck doing this any easier to reddit. I’m of the mind to just remove all mods, set the community to restricted and if reddit wants to re-open it, they can find new mods themselves.

Unfortunately a few of the existing mods want to continue with reddit only and I’m not top mod anymore, so…

Instead of thinking about what we could do on reddit, think about what we’re going to do on Lemmy.

I don’t remember the last time I went to r/piracy except to check the megathread. Most of the content I came across there are low effort memes and low effort discussions but I had to check it recently to see pics of sexy pirates then I saw all the drama.

I’m absolutely disgusted by subs whose essence supposedley is anti-corpo yet aren’t planning to moving to another platform because they love Reddit so much! Of course, some mods in r/piracy actually made the effort to get people elsewhere but a lot of the users turned out to be corporate bootlickers.

I hope the users get charged a monthly subscription to access Reddit so they could come here to ask for modded Reddit apps.

Anyway, I don’t really care what happens to r/piracy. There’s a copy of the megathread here and if I need help, then I’m sure the users here are much more knowledgeable.

From the looks of it, seems like the people who don’t care about the API are the ones left behind, makes me think these are the type of people who don’t contribute; and sooner or later they’ll realize that.

People who haven’t joined or even tried Lemmy at this point are just close-minded. What stopped them from joining Lemmy during the initial days of blackout, way before all the John Olivier fuckfest? These same users are acting like you can’t use one more site. Probably addicted to Reddit karma.

Reddit will not improve and it will get worse for sure. It’s actually good all of these happened, at least the sub will die at the mods’ hands. Considering Reddit already killed piracy subs like megalinks years ago and slowly banning other piracy subs one by one, the site’s becoming more and more unfitting for piracy discussion and it hasn’t been the most comfortable site for discussing piracy ever since those events. Mods have to impose stricter rules to avoid a ban, at least there’s way more freedom in piracy discussion on Lemmy, just like on Reddit years ago. Reddit will most likely ban all piracy related subs in the next few years, maybe they’ll even pull a Tumblr/Imgur and ban all NSFW subs.

I’m older, and remember the days when the internet was “hard” (pre web). And because you had to work a little bit to find information, you tended to stick with, and contribute to the groups you found. Better engagement, better discussion, more inside jokes, better community. Reddit has just turned into an echo chamber of the lowest common denominator. Lemmy feels a bit more like the old days - a community with actual content.

I vote: do whatever you want with it (kill it, hand it over, whatever). Let’s leave it behind and concentrate on making this place awesome.

Pirates have always been known to be aggressive since they were sailing on boats with hooks and swords.