This could not be any funnier. Please reddit, take legal control of the piracy subreddit, right as you take the experienced mod team out. I'm sure everything will go fantastic.
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they're gonna love that sweet, sweet liability
Haha what the fuck I really did NOT think they would do that to r/piracy of all things. Ah well fuck them and their shitty IPO. I‘m here with you guys for good, the structure of the fediverse suits our purposes and community better anyway.
I would imagine that can lead to legal troubles endorsing r/piracy willingly?
Accepting it is one thing, but forcing it to open is entirely different.
I would imagine too, but who knows, there is a different set of rules for companies and the rich.
Now that Reddit is asserting direct control over it, maybe they‘ll turn it into an anti-piracy sub to prevent any legal trouble.
Well I guess its time to flood r/piracy with magnet links as soon as the new jannies open it.
Also worth flooding them with ~~links~~ a map to where they can board the new ship where the 🏴☠️ flag still flies high.
Bonus points if they're Nintendo games!
Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL
Coming soon: rebranding /r/piracy to "pirate cosplay"
Obvious that this is automated and will be going out to all subs. They definitely wouldn't go to bat to keep a piracy sub open, unless they're even dumber than I thought.
automated message, sure. But they demoded just me, which is obviously very exact.
1: Funny we were all in here like two days ago saying "they'll probably be happy to have the piracy sub gone"
2: Any member of the existing mod team that helps them is a fucking scab
3: Everyone else has made a good point about some potential liability issues of reddit the corporation wresting control of the piracy subreddit into their own hands
4: There are so many layers of irony with a corporation saying people need to have access to the community that tells them how to commit copyright infringement and then forcing that information into the open despite what its caretakers wish.
If reddit decides to moderate the Piracy subreddit directly, does that mean that they'll be responsible to respond to DMCA requests? If so, that's going to be a shitshow all in itself.
Oh shit, I didn't even notice what subreddit this was. Please PLEASE someone kick down their door (with legal actions) over this.
Imagine fucking up that hard that pirates endorse DMCA
So basically, according to Reddit, they own everything on Reddit. That means all the the CP, hate speech — and in this case, piracy — that are posted on Reddit are Reddit's responsibility. Bold strategy, cotton. They're basically waiving their net neutrality.
That means all the the CP, hate speech — and in this case, piracy — that are posted on Reddit are Reddit’s responsibility.
Of course not, from reddit's ToS: "By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.
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lol imagine being so desperate for the protest to come to an end that you are even targeting a community that engages in legally questionable activity.
I'm sure the process of determining what mods to DM was automated, but even so, it's still pretty funny to me.
Well, good thing that you prepared well in advance and have already built a nice alternative.
Reddit is done
They went easy on you. Some overzealous mod permabanned my entire account for talking about Lemmy. Allegedly against their 'content guidelines'
This should somehow be made known outside the fediverse, to bring more people away from reddit and to here
I reinvited you in case you care.
cheers. Rejoined
I say transfer as much as you can over here, then nuke the sub completely. The source of knowledge are mostly here now and everything else can be rebuild. We are pirates, we don't yield easily and can survive anywhere.
This bullshit made me nuke my 30k karma account. I hope lemmy won't die month later.
Yeah in the antiwork subreddit my comments are instantly shadowbanned, my old comments in other subs show up , reddit is in major emergency mode apparently.
Good
r/wallstreetbets is probably preparing to short Reddit once they IPO 😂
I think this calls for the subreddit to get rm -rf /*
'd so that reddit gets nothing.
They have even been restoring deleted posts. Fuck reddit
Hmm.... wouldn't restoring deliberately-user-deleted content directly break a bunch of "right to be forgotten"-style laws that Reddit's technically obliged to follow? (GDPR, some California laws, etc)?
So Reddit is forcing open a piracy sub. I wonder how potential investors would feel about that?
Make sure you remove any and all bots created, and delete all the custom work you did. Reddit can probably restore it, but it'll take them time and effort to do so.
They can restore the bot accounts, sure, but they can't restore the servers that run those bot accounts.
Ah yes, "please reopen the piracy sub so people can discuss piracy freely 🥺".
My bet is this is an automated message sent to big subreddits.
Wow, didn't figure they'd go so blatantly mask off this early on. They must be nervous.
Also dumb. Have they never dealt with pirates before? Cut off one head and two more grow to replace it. Good luck you shmucks.
Oh thank God, i first thought that the reddit navy entered Lemmy. i don't care about what happens on reddit, in fact, i'e be happy if they'd harm it.
But: can't mods nuke the subreddit history before they're demoded?
Pretty ironic text. It's in part because of the trust put in moderators that they feel the need to protest / protest following that obligation.
Lol, gtfo. Fuck that place anyway.