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[–] [email protected] 278 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Piracy and Star Trek communities had a lot more success migrating their communities over to lemmy compared to other communities. Not 100% success as many opposed to the migration (I remember seeing big drama on r/piracy back then, and lesser drama on r/startrek), but a good chuck of them was successfully migrating to lemmy.

Edit: wait, I didn't realized it's @[email protected] himself that made this post. Man, I don't know how you're able keep going with encouraging redditors to migrate to lemmy with how redditors that stay on r/piracy was treating you. I say good riddance! Your hard work paid off!

[–] [email protected] 238 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well I'm not really on reddit anymore, so that helps 😁

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Bro, this community rocks, I didn't ditch Reddit completely but god all the time I head to /r/piracy are the same repeated memes all over again, here we have actual discussion.

As /r/piracy was one of my favorite subreddits, if not the favorite I always was scared Reddit would vanish it... Well not anymore, I am glad Lemmy happened so we have this awesome community, possibly forever.

BTW my lemm.ee account was created due to my prior lemmy.world blocking this community, I know they backtracked that decision, but I am so comfortable here that I didn't even bother to go back.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

💯 👑 Here @[email protected], you dropped this

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

He is the best , thank you all you do Db0

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How were redditors treating them? Just being obnoxious and refusing to change?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

My memory is hazy, but during the subreddit protest, he was somehow removed from moderator list (did the admins got involved?), and the sub reopened shortly after. From then on, any thread about migration to Lemmy is full of people roasting each other. It was awful. No idea why those who remains were so vehemently opposed to migration of a piracy community. It's not like you can openly discuss piracy stuff on Reddit without risking removal by the admins.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yes, the admins removed me without warning then re-arranged the mod team

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

Classic Reddit.

Thank you for everything here, this is a fantastic instance.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Not to sound too tinfoil-hatty, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that was sock puppet accounts. When you don’t want people to unify and leave, just start a flame war!

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Piracy and Porn rule the Internet

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago

The two things that rule the internet, pussy.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ahem, misinformation would like a word with you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Misinfo needs to piggyback off of what people are using their internet connections primarily for.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Back in my day we had Netflix and nothing else, and it was good. Nowadays I can't even watch Looney Tunes on fucking Max because they were delisted. Please someone explain to these execs why they are losing money. They're dying.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I got into datahording pirated media out of spite, youthful angst and complete lack of funds. Now i literally consider it an act of preservation.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Execs are getting paid millions! They DGAF. Once they drive one thing into the ground, they can just move on after landing very softly with their golden parachute.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

I don't pirate games anymore because steam solved my access problem.

Amazing that all these shitty streaming services make me wish blockbuster was a thing again.

But, since it isn't and never will be, it's a yo ho ho from me.

(Until a reasonable steam-esque service for movies/shows turns up anyway)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I had not realised this before, that there are multiple versions of the same community on different instances. For example there are multiple meme communities on different instances.

I wonder how this affects engagement considering that although there might be one large community there are several smaller ones. Perhaps not everyone assumes that there's a larger community on a different instance.

Also how does this affect niche communities where it may be that due to high fragmentation these communities might seem unusually small.

Further, if these niche communities remain unusually smaller than there Reddit counter parts would users leave do to perhaps lack of content versus their Reddit counter parts.

This is kind of a chicken and egg - users migrate or engage the more activity there is and it may lead to discouragement if their first impression is that there isn't content.

I don't know I'm probably rambling and don't know what I'm talking about.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The same is true in reddit. You have multiple communities effectively about the same thing. Eventually one settles into the "primary" one

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I for one didn't know about Lemmy until the redit piracy community moved here.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think I might be one of the very few reddit admins who took the move to lemmy seriously and that's why we managed to succeed so well.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

If I'm not mistaken, lemmyverse.net did not always report properly from lemmy.world and there is a community with slightly more subscribers (https://lemmy.world/c/technology with 49.8k subs today)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I used to be part of the memes community but it sucked so much ass that I just returned to reddit

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a fantastic resource even if you are personally kinda cringe. rat-salute-2

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Thanks hexbear. If you're from one of the bullying crowd, then the feeling's mutual :P

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Yo ho ho 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

We ain't pay for shit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just want to say db0 thanks for pythorhead!! definitely made my bot a bit easier to write.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

It's all thanks to those big companies that always make the worst crap.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Great! Sail bravely, for we're heading into the exciting waters of the future!

Rarr!

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