Yeah, that's literally the entire point. If the subs are unusable, site traffic falls, Huffman makes less money and looks worse to the investors, and people find better alternatives like here.

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's honestly hilarious Reddit bungled this so badly as to upset everyone. Ah well, at least with this digital piracy community I can rest assured a corporation isn't censoring discourse.

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[–] sternail@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Reddit is probably going to be happy about the protest in this sub. Can't imagine that investors like the sub about getting stuff for free...

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, the sub was closed and Reddit forced it to reopen, so there is an argument they do endorse piracy

[–] gsa32@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still can't believe Reddit actually decided to do that. I thought they were going to ban the sub or keep it closed.

[–] thenonymousrexius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I figured given all the other subs to force back open, they should've just not risked the potential bad-press of appearing to endorse digital piracy right before going public as a company, and just stayed quiet and said nothing.

[–] TheDeadGuy@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I imagine that they are doing this to more than just the piracy sub and it's widespread across reddit communities

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

They are for sure, there's posts about it everywhere, but they're reaching out individually to each sub (like, individually messaging the moderation teams, even), so it's not like there wasn't at least some conscious effort on their part with regards to r/piracy in particular.

[–] GiantBasil@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

But then they should be happy we wanted to stay close right? How is a big dead sub better than a private one new people wouldn't even know it exists? Forcing r/piracy open was a very weird decision, I still don't get it.

[–] Exilfranke@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

The power of Reddit lies within its very diverse and many communities on special interests. People browsing r/piracy also browse the Frontpage, r/all and so on. But mainly their special interests is what kept them there. Because funny memes can be found everywhere.

Now, if those special interests are not being served any more, people will go elsewhere. So no, I don't think they will be happy and investors won't be either.

[–] Kettlepants@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Active on her? She's a lucky lady 😂

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yarrr

[–] user@lemmy.one 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Piracy and privacy guides, two main reasons why I'm here. Arggg 🤣

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aye a fellow lemmy.one user 🙋‍♂️🚢

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Aye a fellow lemmy.one user!

[–] fell@ma.fellr.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@hyperio The great thing is, I don't even have to sign up. I just follow this sub (do you still call it a sub?) from my #Mastodon!

Ahh, bless the #Fediverse.

[–] arthur@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think is called community now. At least is c/piracy to access !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] rooster_butt@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You would think that a pirates favorite letter be the r/, but it truly always was the c/.

[–] FuriousFrodo@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

pirates be at 'SEA' now...

[–] penguin_in_suit@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

I regret that all im able to give you is a mere upvote

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[–] Gabbro@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It won't be the same without RARBG. 😭

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

i still miss isohunt and mininova

[–] Staark@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

I've not thought about Isohunt for a looooong time. That takes me back.

[–] Zefrem23@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

Mininova? I still miss Suprnova!

[–] kronicmage@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Wow haven't heard those names in ages

[–] Markoff@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, consistently great 1080p X265 releases you could rely on them, this was a big loss for me, nobody release that many X265 releases that fast, PSA only mainstream, megusta only TV shows, everything else either too slow or too rare

[–] throwachimera@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I've switched to the RBG and INFINITY x265 1080p releases from TorrentFunk or 1337x. IMO they are a decent replacement for the RARBG x265 1080p releases but its hard to find some movies.

The selection on RARBG was just insane..

That being said. You can still find plenty of the old releases on other trackers.

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[–] LiemPong_Pagong@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

@hyperio

Ohhh, what a clueless summer child. Hussshh, everything will be alright.

[–] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

Let's do it then

[–] great_meh@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago

Arr, take my wooden peg!

[–] kurgal@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We have https://kbin.social/m/piratedgames

[–] SpookySnek@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yay, two threads

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[–] webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Quick question, how does this piracy community compare with fmhy?

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fmhy are just providers of the instance and that's what their general communities focus on. For information regarding the high seas, this is the community you want to look into.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No actually fmhy is technically a "competitor" to this community if you want to call it that. I personally think fmhy has a better megathread than this one due to it being updated much more frequently, but essentially both communities are similar.

[–] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Either one community will become big and the other small.

Or, the two communities will start going into niches (like, one being more focused on movies and the other games)

And seeing as you can subscribe to both, I assume that these communities will assist each other.

The strength of federation is that you have no "one-true-community" anymore. If one gets sick (I.e. Reddit) you have other safe havens to take over

[–] azron@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Ich war dabei. Los Piraten!

[–] Zednix@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

I didn't use /r/piracy, but I do read this forum

[–] icongnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Just the quality of replies and posts here over the old sub, is honestly alone worth the move.

[–] PunchEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm afraid to ask, but why John Oliver?

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

He makes Last Week Tonight which is a show with a big reach, Reddit-Mods are essentially pinging him.

He did respond on Twitter with a dump of sexy-pictures of him to post.

The show is on pause because of the writers-strike at the moment, so it might take a while for this to be a topic.

[–] Sp00ky94@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I wasn't sure if the writers strike was still happening. Earlier today I did search on YouTube for his segment on the reddit situation to see what he had to say.

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