To be fair, anyone who actually cares is not on reddit anymore, so you’re seeing the worst of the worst takes.

A lot of people on r/piracy are pirates by convenience, not by ethics. The sub being shut down is not convenient for them. It’s really sad to see how many people have the attention span of a goldfish, and can’t think beyond “this isn’t convenient for me today.”

I feel like they don’t understand the point of the john oliver posts. Someone said it only turns the community to shit. Yeah, that is LITERALLY the reason so that people migrate away and turn reddit into a mess after spez’s decision. Oh, how quickly people forgot about the protest, spez was right.

Because Lemmy isn’t as conveniently accessed, and it’s just slow.

It’s also confusing.

It’s so hard to join lemmy now, and everything lags in lemmy even just an upvote…

Why wouldn’t they want to stay? It works for them. Before ideology, before morality, before any other thing you can conceive of is plain, simple convenience. And Reddit is certainly convenient. Once enough users leave, they’ll leave, too.

This is actually something I think might be concerning in the long run. Reddit’s current direction has driven away a contingent of users who tend to share similar moral values; Lemmy’s userbase tends pretty left with a lot of content here being anti-capitalist and pro-marginalized groups. It makes sense that decentralized federated networks would be attractive to those subsets of users.

What I’m afraid of is that this will create a vacuum in which Reddit becomes even more of a breeding grounds for right-wing rhetoric and propaganda without the presence of these users to balance it out a bit. I know that as a Reddit-addicted teen, I hovered dangerously close to some pretty disgusting ideologies. Thankfully I discovered some leftist communities which expanded my narrow worldview and veered me to a much happier path. I don’t think reddit as a platform will die, but I fear those communities might, and I shudder to think at what reddit could become without them.

I have only just joined over here on Lemmy, so let me try to explain what took me so long. Reddit, even though a shit hole, is easier to use and has ingrained itself with google for even easier use. Lemmy is a nightmare to try and find boards ya interested in for common people, as each .com is it’s own sign up and own set of boards, it’s not you go to one site, sign up and find what ya want, you need to know each little lemmy.insertnamehere to find a certain ammount of boards.

This is just my experience and everyone could be different, basically put, laziness and simplicity i think are the two main reasons.

EDIT: not to mention that just took about 5mins to post… wtf is up with this site?

I just took a look at one of the most popular recent “mutiny posts” and wow, it really has gone to shit. I get that some people might not care about the API mess, but they actively hate the mods there. Half the comments are just unhinged and are still upvoted.

There was even an unabashed antivaxer comment from some guy drawing some sort of insane comparisons between mrna and r/Piracy mods and even that was upvoted lol

I don’t know if the numbers back this up but I hope that the reason for this is just that the reasonable people moved to Lemmy and it’s just the crazies left there…

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/r/Piracy

That’s not the real games piracy sub anyways. The true successor of the scene-watching community is and always was /r/CrackWatch and even there people are very aware that they’re not contributors, just spectators. So basically, it was a place for movies piracy, and movies piracy is and always been the most piss easy, top result on google piracy around. I haven’t gone on a single website to pirate movies in a decade, shit is all searchable either directly on qBit and deluge or on tracker tools.

They don’t want to come over, so what? They’re irrelevant. A wiki service reddit, barely anything else. A place for people who unironically install uTorrent and don’t even know what the u stands for.

Hey, they can stay on Reddit with their beloved memes, I don’t really care.

They probably don’t want to learn, so they won’t try to learn how to use Lemmy or Kbin.

I have known about lemmy for a long time. Im happy its starting to have a population. Only reason I am sad to leave reddit is I have used it to save answers to my questions and save guides etc. Its more an archive for me

I have the opposite question, what trait of a pirate makes you think they would leave reddit?

1. Lemmy still has the same inherent drawbacks of Reddit, but now the mods have complete power with no admin oversight whatsoever.

2. The moderators of a community have no right to kill it. If people wish to leave for Lemmy, I welcome it. if the other sub died naturally, I’d migrate over here myself (the same way I migrated to Reddit gradually through dozens of forums dying naturally)

Forcefully trying to kill the sub serves no purpose other than to centralize piracy knowledge, benefit Reddits IPO by getting rid of a hated subreddit, and allow more mod censorship. Also, Lemmy isn’t indexed by google, so you’re fully reliant on the inbuilt search unlike Reddit. (which makes Lemmy less useful for finding specific content)

3. Lemmy is still in it’s early stages. I’m a part of 1k+ communities on Reddit and fewer than half have a prescence on Lemmy or an equivalent.

4. Dearth of NSFW content. (I mean really, it’s kinda sad. Even twitter has more regularly posted nsfw than Lemmy.)

5. UI and UX are garbage. I’ve had more 503s on Lemmy the past week than Reddit the past 8 years. The new reddit app looks & feels better than any available android app for Lemmy. (and honestly on desktop too)

6. Why ‘move’ ?

If the mods don’t want to moderate the old sub, then pass the torch.

Considering piracy’s focus on decentralization, y’all are oddly supportive of centralizing your content on a Lemmy instance hosted by one guy.

Which brings me to:

7. The person who hosts the Lemmy instance can edit the database directly just like Spez can with Reddit. You’re trading centralized power around admins for centralized power around the server host. So essentially just downgrading to the old forum days… (you know, the stuff Reddit replaced in large part.)

I’m sure this will get downvoted to hell, but these are a few reasons why the Reddit community shouldn’t be killed.