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Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit.
For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/
Neat. I tried getting into fediverse a couple time during the last 3 years and everytime I'd get bored after a day or two.
This time it feels different though. I never imagined there would be this much activity on here. We really oughta thank spez lmao
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Precisely! And unlike Twitter or Facebook you're not reliant to other specific people.
Reddit have us an opening we wouldn't have had otherwise.
I think lemmy has the potential to break the fediverse wide open.
Not just Lemmy, since that's the cool thing federation allows. This is a Lemmy instance and you're posting from Lemmy, but I'm reading and posting from kbin. Even in its early stages, we've got two big different alternatives that share the same content, which is dope.
It became pretty much permanent for me, now I'm more on kbin the last few days than Reddit (like at least a 10:1 ratio in terms of minutes spent), where I only use reddit if I need some info that can't be found anywhere else and that AI can't answer me. I'm pretty sure even the real "2 days" folks will come here full-time as soon as the API changes go through and most apps for Reddit stop working.
Federation really helps too because here I get an active flow of interesting posts from this and different instances and communities unlike Reddit where you scroll r/popular once and you're done for the day.
I also tend to write much more extensive and informative comments on here than on Reddit, which probably comes with the territory, but I've seen it with other people too.
I don't write extensive and informative comments, but I am posting a lot more comments than I used to on Reddit. It feels more open.
yea most definetely. I think the initial momentum is important, with peopel more willing to get used to the new platform and UI lol
That's awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I'm not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we're probably safer here.
Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there'll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there's no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn't this one
The instance owner is an anarchist that doesn't care about copyright. We aint shutting down unless he gets sued, and the case also needs standing. As long as we dont link directly to pirated content, we're fine.
The risk is significantly reduced if the instance its running on and the domain host is in a country that isnt legally obligated to honor DMCA takedowns. Wothout doing research, this instance likely is in a major country, and therefor not its permanent location because of this. but whats different than reddit is we have the capability to host the servers ourself where we want.
Once(if) its taken down, another instance can be run from a more friendly country and DMCA notices wont have any weight legally.
The only problem then would be popular home instances going excommunicado with the pirate instance like that bee one did recently
I'm assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the "fediverse"
Pirates are used to migrating en masse
Dead site? Wheres the next one?
has been a part of piracy since it started
NGL, I'm pretty excited about that happening, imagina a pirate paradise.
I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit's fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.
FUCK YOU SPEZ!
I think Lemmy has prospects to be even better than Reddit. Let's drink go it!
I wish a lot of the other subreddits staying dark had a plan like this too.
The other subs dont want to bother with the hassle of moving. They just want a "show of force" without actually having backup plans. Piracy subreddit is dying, the other subs can choose to stay, but we have no choice, we had to move.
Paraphrasing Louis Rossmann, they're taking a weekend break from their abusive partner hoping it will teach them a lesson.
For piracy, it's pure unshackling. It's great!
Yep, a lot of them are just missing the opportunity
I feel Lemmy fits better with the pirate way of life.
Long live Lemmy and screw reddit
Migrating from Reddit to Lemmy was easier than migrating from Netflix to a seedbox.
I think with users who know the basics about internet piracy, switching to a Lemmy instance wasn't difficult.
Drastically smaller chance of things getting taken down here to boot. You'd practically have to get the host of your server up in arms, which is a lot harder to do than a grumpy Reddit admin pressing the ban button.
Posting from kbin. Just here to celebrate with y'all.
I am having a difficult time reaching kbin from lemmy but I'm glad it works better in reverse
Community makes things grate, I believe in it, so let's go lemmy.
Fuck spez
If this place was to shutdown I think I'd be lost, hopefully we don't die down.
Funny, how this sub and post was displayed as the first one after completing my registration on kbin :'D
That's amazing!
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free! You are a pirate!
Reddit was never a great place for piracy because of central corporate ownership, the fediverse is much more free.
Nice, I just joined too and am already enjoying this community and the whole lemmy thing in general. Some weird stuff about it like instances defederating each other is new to me, but I think I can get used to posting more on here.