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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 276 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 @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 235 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 44 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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[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

💯 👑 Here @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you dropped this

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[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 10 months ago

He is the best , thank you all you do Db0

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 10 months ago

Classic Reddit.

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

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To what level is this community still affiliated with the subreddit?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same mods. I don't particularly hang out in reddit anymore, but @sunbrothersco@lemmy.dbzer0.com is still doing unpaid volunteering for spez :P

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 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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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 140 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Piracy and Porn rule the Internet

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago (7 children)
[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 63 points 10 months ago

The two things that rule the internet, pussy.

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 13 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=zi8VTeDHjcM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ahem, misinformation would like a word with you.

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 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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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 93 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.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago (1 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.

[–] dansel@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

lack of funds

datahoarding

how’s that working out for you?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 15 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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[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] africanprince99@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (2 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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 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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[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's an issue that could be solved within lemmy where communities with the same name should be able to merge and show each others content.

It also happens when users join and pick the largest community at the time, which may be overtaken later but the user will never know unless they often go looking

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's an issue that could be solved within lemmy where communities with the same name should be able to merge and show each others content.

This is bad idea though, unless if it's an optional feature that the users themselves choose to activate (e.g similar to multireddit, but you don't have to manually curate the communities yourself). Imagine the same community from two opposing instances (e.g. blahaj and hexbear) somehow got merged by default. That would be an absolute shitshow. Also, how would moderation work? Those communities often have different moderation rule. Can mods from one community remove posts from another community with the same name? This would also be an absolute shitshow.

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[–] zeograd@lemmy.world 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)

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 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: !technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago
[–] clover@slrpnk.net 26 points 10 months ago
[–] zbynaCool@lemmy.ml 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Custodian1623@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

there's a lot of Linux memes... don't get me wrong I've had a chuckle at a couple Linux memes before but tbh most of the time it's just a reference to Linux and they forget to include a joke.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Those people are weird. I’m saying this as someone that has a Steam Deck and runs Proxmox and Opensense and 13 VMs and containers on my network, so you know I understand the value: Linux should never be prescribed to Normies. This is not the year of the Linux desktop. It might be your year of the Linux desktop, and that’s great! But to blanket prescribe it to everyone with a slight problem in Mac or Windows with the phrase “Just Use Linux!:tm:” like all of their problems will go away if you just move to a new OS is the most asinine, fanboy shit I’ve ever heard of. And it doesn’t have anything to do with “skill issues” or whatever, it’s that normal people don’t fucking care, just want shit to work

But I get it, we’re in the fediverse, where people have a higher proclivity for open source, open protocol, open hosting, open bars, etc. But if you’re reading this and getting upset, please understand there’s a whole lot of other shit to care about, and someone’s choice of OS has as much to do with you as their sexual preferences: none at all.

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[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 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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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Savendro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Yo ho ho 🏴‍☠️

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

We ain't pay for shit.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

Rarr!

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Liberation of closed source/trade marked goods is only a good thing.

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