Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I think people on r/piracy need to see the writing on the wall. Reddit is getting rid of 3rd party clients, is obviously not happy with large subs swapping to NSFW content and is trying to push for things to be as advertiser friendly as possible

At some point they're going to go after piracy subs more aggressively which is probably why it's better to make the switch earlier rather than later

I see a lot of comments there saying when that happens "they'll just make a new sub" missing the fact once Reddit starts banning piracy users/subs the new ones that spring up in its place will only last a week or two before being banned again

Personally I just don't like lemmy, but i'll stick to where the community goes. This instances are slow and don't always work well. Simple things like upvotes lag. Either way its splintering the community and that is a bad thing in the long run.

The sub is already open though and people are posting piracy related questions. I don't see why people are still bitching.

people are addicted to reddit and its going to take time for them to get off that drug. Having a robust, functional alternative would help with that. Lemmy needs work still to be that

We have a limited ability to freely discuss piracy on mainstream social media, which Reddit now regrettably is. IMO piracy communities can probably only exist in decentralized social media anymore.

They should stop protesting and let the place rot, they're already on lemmy and officially moved there now. Best thing they could do is to lock the subreddit, point to lemmy, and keep it like that till admins feels like force-reopening an (illegal!) subreddit and appoint supermods that won't do anything with it. r/piracy is dead, long live c/piracy official lemmy community.

/r/Piracy seems to be the only subreddit I've seen that is upset with the mods for the protest. Every other sub I've been in, anyone who says anything remotely negative about the protests is downvoted to oblivion (rightfully so in my opinion)

Go back to somewhere regulated or stay here and shape the community in any way we want? Seems like a no brainer.

The idea of the protest is to either forcibly reduce user interaction/retention on the site or raise awareness of the problems that the API changes will raise, spamming John Oliver in pirate clothing won't effectively achieve either.

I like the idea of r/theyknew which forces every post to have an image saying that reddit is killing 3rd party apps. But even that would be better in bigger subreddits which constantly gets r/all coverage.

The way r/piracy is "protesting", it's better to open away, it's not like Reddit wants copyright circumvention to be discussed in their website.

Surprisingly, the "stop protesting" is winning the vote.

Can someone relay the outcome of the vote? I can't see it without an account and without voting

My take, I think a piracy subreddit protesting is useless since were already on thin ice. Some people just want advice on any issues they are having and not many of them know about lemmy. If anyone will convince Reddit to change their API policy, it aint us. Let the normies get their questions answered and the news flowing.

well, of you mean shutting down the sub permenantly and convincing redditors to finally migrate then sure, otherwise its pointless

Please don't link to Reddit.