Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit.

For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/

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[–] 123 points 3 years ago (14 children)

Neat. I tried getting into fediverse a couple time during the last 3 years and everytime I'd get bored after a day or two.

This time it feels different though. I never imagined there would be this much activity on here. We really oughta thank spez lmao

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  • [–] 78 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (11 children)
  • [–] [S] 47 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Precisely! And unlike Twitter or Facebook you're not reliant to other specific people.

    Reddit have us an opening we wouldn't have had otherwise.

    I think lemmy has the potential to break the fediverse wide open.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    It became pretty much permanent for me, now I'm more on kbin the last few days than Reddit (like at least a 10:1 ratio in terms of minutes spent), where I only use reddit if I need some info that can't be found anywhere else and that AI can't answer me. I'm pretty sure even the real "2 days" folks will come here full-time as soon as the API changes go through and most apps for Reddit stop working.

    Federation really helps too because here I get an active flow of interesting posts from this and different instances and communities unlike Reddit where you scroll r/popular once and you're done for the day.

    I also tend to write much more extensive and informative comments on here than on Reddit, which probably comes with the territory, but I've seen it with other people too.

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    [–] 60 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    That's awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I'm not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we're probably safer here.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there'll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there's no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn't this one

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    The risk is significantly reduced if the instance its running on and the domain host is in a country that isnt legally obligated to honor DMCA takedowns. Wothout doing research, this instance likely is in a major country, and therefor not its permanent location because of this. but whats different than reddit is we have the capability to host the servers ourself where we want.

    Once(if) its taken down, another instance can be run from a more friendly country and DMCA notices wont have any weight legally.

    The only problem then would be popular home instances going excommunicado with the pirate instance like that bee one did recently

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    I'm assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the "fediverse"

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    [–] 49 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Pirates are used to migrating en masse

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit's fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.

    FUCK YOU SPEZ!

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    [–] 28 points 3 years ago

    I think Lemmy has prospects to be even better than Reddit. Let's drink go it!

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I wish a lot of the other subreddits staying dark had a plan like this too.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The other subs dont want to bother with the hassle of moving. They just want a "show of force" without actually having backup plans. Piracy subreddit is dying, the other subs can choose to stay, but we have no choice, we had to move.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    Long live Lemmy and screw reddit

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    I feel Lemmy fits better with the pirate way of life.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Migrating from Reddit to Lemmy was easier than migrating from Netflix to a seedbox.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Posting from kbin. Just here to celebrate with y'all.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago*

    Drastically smaller chance of things getting taken down here to boot. You'd practically have to get the host of your server up in arms, which is a lot harder to do than a grumpy Reddit admin pressing the ban button.

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  • Community makes things grate, I believe in it, so let's go lemmy.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    If this place was to shutdown I think I'd be lost, hopefully we don't die down.

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Funny, how this sub and post was displayed as the first one after completing my registration on kbin :'D

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    That's amazing!

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Y'arr! I hope this shall be a safer port of call than Reddit.

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Greetings from Kbin, get fucked /u/Spez.

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    [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Nice, I just joined too and am already enjoying this community and the whole lemmy thing in general. Some weird stuff about it like instances defederating each other is new to me, but I think I can get used to posting more on here.

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Hi all, just came over from Reddit. Nice to see that the community is continuing :) Feels like the piracy scene has been hit a few times now with Rarbg finishing and the API changes, I will carry my duty and try to share the word where the community is at! Perhaps this is just a good fresh start and people like oldfart will find a new better platform to share their treasures on. :)

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