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Why Lemmy's Piracy Community Outshines r/Piracy? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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r/Piracy on Reddit is more of a meme subreddit. I've never seen any actual discussion or valuable information as I do on this community. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because piracy isn’t legal. For anything that can run afoul of the law, or bad publicity, or advertisers’ preferences, Reddit admins have to keep the content on a tight leash. Lemmy doesn’t have advertisers to worry about as it’s supported directly by users, and not being a for-profit company makes it somewhat harder for the law to come down on it (and if they do, the community can easily move). Really, it’s a fundamental advantage of federation.