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Can someone tell me the reason why these people don't want to leave Reddit? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14knc6t/got_r4d_for_pirating_someone_elses_john_oliver_so/

Pirates want to stay on Reddit? This is the last group I had expected to have such a reaction, but here we are. Yes, the mod could have worded it better, but these people actually want to stick around on Reddit.

I personally find Lemmy to be a perfectly viable alternative to Reddit for such subs. I wonder about the reasons why these people still don't want to move.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's like BitTorrent. There's seeders and then there's leechers who just want their free stuff and stop sharing immediately afterwards.

Some have more principle than others.

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

I think you mean there are Lemmy users (qbittorrent) and Reddit users (utorrent).

Can't convince them what they're using is bad and that there are better alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still can't believe people use uTorrent even though it became malware so long ago. Like come on guys, really? There are a ton of way better clients like qBit and Transmission, and they are just stuck in their own ways to their detriment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the craziest part is those who know, so they stay on a "safe" version released in 2010..

Nothing like using a 13 year old piece of software despite there being way better up to date alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Okay, that's just crazy. I have been beginning to suspect people are a lot dumber than I originally thought, and this helps confirm that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have friends who still default to utorrent. Every time I see their desktops with utorrent in the taskbar, I let out an audible WTF and show them the light (qBittorrent).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure I'm able to seed, unfortunately. College network doesn't seem to like port forwarding, and Mullvad disabled port forwarding recently. That and I don't have a lot of storage space and I'm worried about getting a scary letter from my ISP. At least the scene I'm in is more DDL-based than torrent-based. Makes things easier.