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.

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[–] pillems@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Fuck those Reddit punks, people can make a better piracy community in the fediverse.

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[–] NonDollarCurrency@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They are afraid. Gold, just means we need to keep working on making this community better. Stronger.

[–] edgerunnergit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Welp! I'm glad I made the switch to Lemmy at least.

[–] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, even if they backtrack on all of this shit, I am done with them. This episode as a whole is a great illustration of the danger of allowing a private business to run one of the biggest spaces for community and discourse in the world.

[–] razor_1911@szmer.info 1 points 2 years ago

Aye. Good to have a new home in case the old one burns down

[–] Charcoal8645@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You and me both. Im still heaving a little trouble figuring out all the fediverse, but it will definitely be better than reddit

[–] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 1 points 2 years ago

@Charcoal8645 @edgerunnergit Basically, the Fediverse is a universe of tech designed to talk and interact with each other. For example, I can interact with you even though I don't have a Lemmy account, and it works the other way too. ActivityPub connects all of us. I'm also sure interopability will strengthen as these services grow. It isn't just Mastodon focus migrations happening and this is really great!

[–] _Stalwart_@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whatever happens rest assured that we will keep the community alive and well here!

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

What the hell reddit? This is r/piracy, we've had backup plans on other platforms for ages. Of all the subs to forcibly reopen they do the one with the lowest chance of anyone going back? This has to just be a trial to see how forcibly reopening the front page subs is going to go when they do that.

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[–] theusualuser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Be sure to remove as much as you can and heavily encourage heavy contributors to delete their comment history. They have no value without our data.

[–] fing3r@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yup, this is gonna happen to all the big subreddits sooner or later. /videos is next.

[–] amansrevenger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] onceuponaban@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

So, is that an order to abandon ship?

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Move all the information here and run power delete suite on you reddit accounts while you still can with links to join-lemmy.org, I think that will hurt them quite a bit.

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

I'd be surprised if the subreddit survives the IPO anyways

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

It's fascinating that they would let the r/Piracy sub be forced back, you'd think that it would be in their interest to let it stay shut as long as possible and quietly close it.

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

It looks like the sub is now in restricted mode - is that the doing of the other members of the mod team or is admin trying to control outrage?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The second mod did it. They did not contact me at all so it seems they're communicating with the admins

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

Ugh, this is so shitty! On multiple levels! I'm sorry. Guess we're just being further proven correct in our decision to gtfo.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's honestly quite funny. I would have thought piracy is the one sub they wouldn't care if it's down.

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit: "open up so we can ban you!"

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Arrgh, if it be mutiny then we stand by ye captain. Unfurl the sails and man the cannons ye land'lubbers.

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Seems like reddit openly aknowledging they have this kind of power, control, and willingness to take administrative action in a piracy sub would open them up to some DMCA issues for hosting it.

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

Wow, didn't figure they'd go so blatantly mask off this early on. They must be nervous.

Also dumb. Have they never dealt with pirates before? Cut off one head and two more grow to replace it. Good luck you shmucks.

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We'll just tell the pirates that what they're doing is wrong and they'll stop right? Right?

[–] eric3a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Our new ship is strong!

[–] Faendol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Here come the scab mods!

[–] user@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

😪 sadge. Hopefully something comes better out of this 🤷

[–] PirateForDaLolz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

lol imagine being so desperate for the protest to come to an end that you are even targeting a community that engages in legally questionable activity.

I'm sure the process of determining what mods to DM was automated, but even so, it's still pretty funny to me.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Well, good thing that you prepared well in advance and have already built a nice alternative.

Reddit is done

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