A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn’t even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.
Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.
Just FYI for now. It’s late here so I’ll see how we proceed tomorrow.
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.
Reddit will sure be a lovely site in a few months…
May their shareholders weep.
If you take away what the people want
You’re gonna have a bad time. ⛷️
I’m sad to see what has happened to the community I’ve been a part of for the better part of my life.
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I heard Disney really likes it when their content is shared through Reddit without them getting a cut of the profits. ;)
they’re gonna love that sweet, sweet liability
I had a good hearty laugh thanks to your comment.
lol yeah
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, they could just say: “We made a script to track every mod who closed their sub, revogate its mod permissions and notify all other mods in the sub with an automatic message”, which basically frees them from any charges regarding community content.
They could, however, be sued for not actively removing illegal content, such as pirated things and MAP related things (e.g. r/jailbait)
Honestly it would probably be easy to force the sub to go dark again via ban by posting direct piracy links.
I reinvited you in case you care.
cheers. Rejoined
This should somehow be made known outside the fediverse, to bring more people away from reddit and to here
please do share. I can only spread the word so much.
I don’t really have a following or anything but I’ll try he he he
This bullshit made me nuke my 30k karma account. I hope lemmy won’t die month later.
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That’s literally impossible! An instance may go down, but it will stay cached.
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
Oh yea, is that up anywhere on here yet or not yet?
Thanks <3
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
linksa map to where they can board the new ship where the 🏴☠️ flag still flies high.I’m constantly linking people to Lemmy communities when I’m posting. I’m deleting my account on the 30th but until then I’ll shill for Fediverse
Bonus points if they’re Nintendo games!
why magnet links in particular?
I mean could be any link to copyright material but I generally grab magnet links so shrug
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
Mods can’t nuke the sub, the only thing anyone can do is delete their own user content. However, even then reddit can probably restore it.
I figured. If websites like unddit, ceddit, removeddit etc was able to recover deleted posts and comments, I’m sure the admins can do so too.
But we’re also a crafty bunch. There must be a way to destroy the sub where reddit can’t restore it properly. Like how a user can mass edit their own comments/posts before deleting them, so when reddit restore them back they would only show the edits instead of the originals. Basically use reddit’s own feature against them if we can.
Even small thing like getting rid of the megathread and wiki would discourage people to go into the sub. It’s information that people after, if we get rid of those then there’s no point in going anymore. Slower death and a little anticlimactic that way though.
As far as I know, they only store the last version on the live system. So if you just overwrite it with gibberish and then or don’t delete it, only the backups will have your true comments.
I’m seeing recent comments that dispute this. Users who used power delete suite have discovered their comment history restored against their will
AFAIK all restored comments came from subs that went open again, because removal plugins can‘t remove comments and posts from private subs.
Hmm.
But at least the comments will be useless to the public coz people will only see the edited one right?
And how funny would it be for a corpo like reddit to go out of their way to restore content designed to make piracy easier?
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So Reddit is forcing open a piracy sub. I wonder how potential investors would feel about that?
Fuck them. I don’t give a damn anymore. I’m staying here even if u/spez shoots a video crying like a little baby revoking API changes and begging people to come back
I don’t think this is the right strategy, I believe a video of u/spez crying like a little baby and begging people to come back would be hilarious and I’m tired of pretending it wouldn’t.
Reasonable.
Me too, let’s make this work
Same, I’m all for growing this community and not looking back. Anything centralized is just waiting for some douche like u/spez to ruin it.
Even if he did, his word means nothing and nothing will stop the enshittification of reddit even if he were removed as CEO. This is just where all big websites are going.
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?
reddit will porobably undelete anything like that anyway
Yes, but it would cause them extra work. Just say you volunteer to open up again and take the lead, then go for it 🤭
There are two problems with this :
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Nuking all this valuable info will waste years and years of people trying to share their knowledge.
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Reddit will probably un-delete it.
Isn’t Reddit GDPR copliant? Because if they are, they can’t simply undelete things without users’ permission
By putting content on Reddit you have agreed to make it theirs.
Don’t know what the GDPR has to do with that. That is about protection of personal data.
Reddit comments are ultimately opinions of the user. Under GDPR, the user has the right to correct information that is wrong. Thus, a user has a right to correct and remove their opinions, and this right supersedes their terms and conditions.
Reddit is also stupid. So no idea.
I don’t think comments you made are covered by GDPR. Unless you got personal information in the comment
Depends if it’s the user that asked for deletion or a mod.
Tell everyone to come here while slowly deleting the content over time from multiple accounts. That should make it harder to restore. Oh and edit what you can instead of just deleting.
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Reddit will probably undelete the content. Some former reddit users have reported that all the posts they nuked out of existence was restore a couple days later without their consent.
Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL
r/piracy after the IPO: piracy is unethical as it is stealing from the poor (companies). This is a community to discuss how to stop piracy and become responsible and dutiful consumers.
“dutiful consumers” kinda icks me lol
Coming soon: rebranding /r/piracy to “pirate cosplay”
Nothing but pictures of John Oliver in maritime garb.
Is this the “sexy john oliver” thing people were talking about?
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.
An interesting point about this, is that previously when people would try to gain control over subs with inactive mods the admins would drag their feet as much as possible. (I’m part of a sub where it took almost a year via several requests for the group of new mods to gain ownership of the sub).
But now some fee-fees got hurt and admins go nuclear and removes mods at lightspeed…Yeah. Considering the other mod messaged you it definitely seems targeted
Well, what lovely timing to abandon ship
btw can the other mods bring you back?
maybe things will (should?) get exciting over on /r/piracy
That’s what’s most surprising to me
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.
They’ll just put scab mods
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
They are. That’s why they’re banning subs that are sharing links. R/piracy doesn’t allow the sharing of direct links
