Shocked Pikachu face meme.
Considering I found this comment on Reddit, I guess so.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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"Yeah, well, but having no mods is actually great, we don't even need no mods and these grapes are too sour anyway." - not an alt account of spez at all
Hey, I remember this website from back in the day. They still around or is this old?
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Awww that's too bad.
Hehe, that's my quote. It's from my comment on a Louis Rossmann video. https://lemmy.world/post/1098344
I don't see anything that would need to be moderated here? Or is it just about these comments that are unrelated to the post?
There are many (re)posts with this "if paying isn't owning..." slogan and also many memes being made about the reposts. The piracy subreddit doesn't seem to have a whole lot of piracy right now, it's just, well, this
Can someone explain me this "Reddit API" thing?
Mods used third party tools to help them with their unpaid work. These tools relied on access to the reddit api.
Then reddit charged ridiculous prices for api access, which would mean the apps would need money, so mods would need to pay to do their unpaid work or use the inferior reddit interface.
Given these choices, some mods decided to leave instead.
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Reddit used to have a free and open API. This allowed 3rd parties to develop apps / interfaces for the site. These apps helped everything from making the site usable for some with accessibility issues to blocking ads to providing a customized interface to tons of other things.
Generally this was done by taking the API feed and re-engineering it to allow the desired presentation.
In a move to make the company more attractive to investors before going public, Reddit changed that API to a paid model. This meant any developer of those 3rd party apps would now have to pay a not insignificant in most cases fee to continue their access to Reddit. As such, most apps closed down and a very small portion of us long time Redditors migrated to Lemmy/ the fediverse.
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I wouldn't mod r/privacy at reddit and become the case law that removes section 230 immunity from internet moderators and ending up in prison for lols. Fuck that. They were just reporting on how reddit inc is under pressure to share identifying information about posters to that forum to authorities. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/film-studios-demand-ip-addresses-of-people-who-discussed-piracy-on-reddit/
Oi @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ! Are you one of the Reddit Piracy mods? Or are one of your brethren here from Reddit?
I must say I find Piracy, Linux and the Star Trek communities have had a rip-roaringly successful switch over.
I much prefer Lemmy. I have the opportunity to call you a "dick head" whereas on Reddit there's no way Spez would ever see me calling him a "dick head".
That makes me feel powerful and I become engorged.
So, anyway, are you one of the Reddit mods?
P.S. I can't post to this community from Lemmy.World.
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