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https://old.reddit.com/r/piracy

What's up with that? Moving back to reddit already?

Nice to have access to old posts though.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One of the mods posted here that they were forcibly removed by admin

[–] lee 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck spez man and these mods that are backing down to him.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The mods blinked first as they didn't want to lose their 'magical internet powers' 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The mods are being removed from many subreddits, including r/piracy. Reddit threw in the towel and decided to stop pretending they were community-moderated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

pretending they were community-moderated.

Unless you remember electing your mods, "community moderated" simply means "we don't pay the jannies, they literally do it for free lol!" It was never about the "community" having a voice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

don't forget the supermod awkwardturtle is a proud and loud pedophile (no, not am reactionairy "he/she is not like me" way, he or she actually, for real, prey on confused teens and has "retreats" for them) saying this anything about this will get you an instant permaban on reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Didn't spez at some point moderate a very questionable sub too? Wasn't it jailbait or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Do you have a source for this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

lmao literally this

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao I wonder what drama is going on at the corporate reddit office

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hope the picture of spez having sexy time with female Garfield is getting printed out and pictures hung up on all the office walls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Based on how he speaks to the media and about his customerbase, I wouldn't be shocked if he treats his employees just as badly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

@Dalek_Thal

@anonymous_FTP @Abridgedlife @SpezCanLigmaBalls @BusinessPigeon

Well that's just speculation on our part.

For all we could know. The ones that don't want to be treated badly has left long ago and what remains of reddit employees are those who share the CEOs views and support it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

@LiemPong_Pagong

Actually? Maybe because he made decisions that are causing public outrage.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

well shit, we survive the great purge before hopefully we can this one too

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

They removed the mod (our admin) and are reopening it to stamp out the blackout movement. I‘m not going to go there at all, this is going to be a lobotomised version of r/piracy with some reddit employee or a spez loyalist scab at the helm—no thanks!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

yeah ive always been quiet on the reddit but lemmy feels a lot more open, like i wont get thwacked in the head with a rolled newspaper for asking questions lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

True, I actually got dinged from automods using this word "kill" in various context for example one I remember well: "The Iranian government is killing people and wondering why they fight back?!" And DING I get whacked by the automod for using a bad word. I mean I don‘t mind moderation, but that was so weird I had to self censor myself like "The Iranian government is acting in ways that end people‘s lives and wondering why they fight back?!" to get my comment posted. What a pain. I get not advocating for violence, but the robots didn‘t check for any of that lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Got perma banned for calling him Andrew Taint and his subscribers paypigs without the sexual gratification lol. Last time I got banned for referring to myself as retarded when I lost my ass on options

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I mean there will be limits and our admins named some but overall it seems way more free.

Likely because it's federated instances and each specialises in something.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've seen former thedonald mods trying to get their hands on major subs from the admins.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

r/wallstreetsilver is now just the_donald / consoomer neo nazi sub. reddit is falling apart

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Would take an interesting turn of events if people would get the sub in legal trouble, after Reddit itself essentially enforced the opening

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Time to do what /r/steam and /r/pics are doing. Change rules and only talk about actual Naval piracy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Who did they replace the mod with

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

(first time linking a post here, not sure if it's correct)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Ah, thanks. I found this in the comment chain:

The second mod did it. They did not contact me at all so it seems they’re communicating with the admins

First time linking stuff too, so let's see if this works:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/112104

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Worked for me!

Appreciate the link.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

actively restoring r/piracy
actively forcing a community dedicated to breaking DCMA by proxy back online
actively trying to get an IPO

that's certainly a choice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I said this on another post on this topic. I think this is deliberate. Why would a company that is about to have an IPO want to support anticapitalist subs like Piracy and Antiwork? The saying is never let a good crisis go to waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Well, my popcorn is ready, let's see how that will work out

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

/r/piracy is now a compromised sub to me. Not trusting the resources there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Reddit is forcing open restricted subs by replacing their mods.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Piracy is better practiced irl anyways

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

how about not opening at all as long as possible until all demands are met?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m good over here. No need to go back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This feels more like home and I would rather help build something up that isn’t controlled by psycho fan boys.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Does this mean, based on the email I saw that Reddit was sending out, at least one of the piracy mods turned to the dark side, the email apparently says if one of the moderators would like to work with them to reopen closed subs to contact them. It also mentions that they will protect said mod from retaliation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This just further supports my conspiracy theory /r/piracy is a honeypot. Seems like they opened this subreddit mighty fast (I know supposedly the same message and threat were sent a automatically to all subreddits of a certain size)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm already gone and I'm not coming back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I just got banned again and only use reddit to look at my saved posts, so nah. Done with it come july 1

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