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.
This could not be any funnier. Please reddit, take legal control of the piracy subreddit, right as you take the experienced mod team out. I’m sure everything will go fantastic.
Reddit will sure be a lovely site in a few months…
May their shareholders weep.
If you take away what the people want
You’re gonna have a bad time. ⛷️
I’m sad to see what has happened to the community I’ve been a part of for the better part of my life.
[removed by reddit]
I heard Disney really likes it when their content is shared through Reddit without them getting a cut of the profits. ;)
they’re gonna love that sweet, sweet liability
I had a good hearty laugh thanks to your comment.
lol yeah
Haha what the fuck I really did NOT think they would do that to r/piracy of all things. Ah well fuck them and their shitty IPO. I‘m here with you guys for good, the structure of the fediverse suits our purposes and community better anyway.
I would imagine that can lead to legal troubles endorsing r/piracy willingly?
Accepting it is one thing, but forcing it to open is entirely different.
I would imagine too, but who knows, there is a different set of rules for companies and the rich.
Now that Reddit is asserting direct control over it, maybe they‘ll turn it into an anti-piracy sub to prevent any legal trouble.
Well, they could just say: “We made a script to track every mod who closed their sub, revogate its mod permissions and notify all other mods in the sub with an automatic message”, which basically frees them from any charges regarding community content.
They could, however, be sued for not actively removing illegal content, such as pirated things and MAP related things (e.g. r/jailbait)
Honestly it would probably be easy to force the sub to go dark again via ban by posting direct piracy links.
This bullshit made me nuke my 30k karma account. I hope lemmy won’t die month later.
That’s literally impossible! An instance may go down, but it will stay cached.
Okie, I’m absolute noob here. Right now I struggle to find night mode. :D
Settings > Theme
❤️
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.
Mods can’t nuke the sub, the only thing anyone can do is delete their own user content. However, even then reddit can probably restore it.
I figured. If websites like unddit, ceddit, removeddit etc was able to recover deleted posts and comments, I’m sure the admins can do so too.
But we’re also a crafty bunch. There must be a way to destroy the sub where reddit can’t restore it properly. Like how a user can mass edit their own comments/posts before deleting them, so when reddit restore them back they would only show the edits instead of the originals. Basically use reddit’s own feature against them if we can.
Even small thing like getting rid of the megathread and wiki would discourage people to go into the sub. It’s information that people after, if we get rid of those then there’s no point in going anymore. Slower death and a little anticlimactic that way though.
As far as I know, they only store the last version on the live system. So if you just overwrite it with gibberish and then or don’t delete it, only the backups will have your true comments.
I’m seeing recent comments that dispute this. Users who used power delete suite have discovered their comment history restored against their will
AFAIK all restored comments came from subs that went open again, because removal plugins can‘t remove comments and posts from private subs.
Hmm.
But at least the comments will be useless to the public coz people will only see the edited one right?
And how funny would it be for a corpo like reddit to go out of their way to restore content designed to make piracy easier?
So Reddit is forcing open a piracy sub. I wonder how potential investors would feel about that?
Well I guess its time to flood r/piracy with magnet links as soon as the new jannies open it.
Also worth flooding them with
linksa map to where they can board the new ship where the 🏴☠️ flag still flies high.I’m constantly linking people to Lemmy communities when I’m posting. I’m deleting my account on the 30th but until then I’ll shill for Fediverse
Bonus points if they’re Nintendo games!
why magnet links in particular?
I mean could be any link to copyright material but I generally grab magnet links so shrug
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Look at them using the community and users as a shield and a bargaining chip.
It’s pathetic, really. They say it doesn’t affect them but then they threaten and force people to reopen
“We don’t like that you’re protesting against us shitting on our users, so think about the users, and stop protesting against us.”
Fuck those Reddit punks, people can make a better piracy community in the fediverse.
Hello how did you change the font on your username?
I have used a Twitter(it work for any platform anyway) font editor you can search it at Google or whatever search engine you use.
@MrComradeTaco @collegefurtrader
Not to be that guy, but I think accessibility advocates would rather you didn’t do that, because it causes issues for screen readers for the visually handicapped.Just call your local politician and tell them to create a law banning fonts you don’t like.
Yeah, can we defederate* from this guy and his fancy fonts?
* Whatever the hell that means
Lol who cares
@abc123@lemmy.fmhy.ml
Blind people care.You don’t need to know usernames to read the comments
My guess is fancy font generator and setting that as displayed name.
Oh thank God, i first thought that the reddit navy entered Lemmy. i don’t care about what happens on reddit, in fact, i’e be happy if they’d harm it.
But: can’t mods nuke the subreddit history before they’re demoded?
reddit will porobably undelete anything like that anyway
Yes, but it would cause them extra work. Just say you volunteer to open up again and take the lead, then go for it 🤭
There are two problems with this :
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Nuking all this valuable info will waste years and years of people trying to share their knowledge.
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Reddit will probably un-delete it.
Isn’t Reddit GDPR copliant? Because if they are, they can’t simply undelete things without users’ permission
Reddit is also stupid. So no idea.
I don’t think comments you made are covered by GDPR. Unless you got personal information in the comment
By putting content on Reddit you have agreed to make it theirs.
Don’t know what the GDPR has to do with that. That is about protection of personal data.
Reddit comments are ultimately opinions of the user. Under GDPR, the user has the right to correct information that is wrong. Thus, a user has a right to correct and remove their opinions, and this right supersedes their terms and conditions.
Depends if it’s the user that asked for deletion or a mod.
Tell everyone to come here while slowly deleting the content over time from multiple accounts. That should make it harder to restore. Oh and edit what you can instead of just deleting.
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Reddit will probably undelete the content. Some former reddit users have reported that all the posts they nuked out of existence was restore a couple days later without their consent.
We’ll build a better ship with a sturdier ram, 32 pounder cannons and free wenches and rum! Dbzer0 for captain, 2023
Looks like I made the right decision to join Lemmy today. Reddit is a sinking ship
The hole started its development as soon as old reddit was gone.
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.
Good point, I doubt many other subs have escape plans. So yeah we’d be the first to jump ship. Not a good control group for an experiment.
Archive and delete is the only language those scurvy dogs speak.
Or simply remove Rule 3
Wouldn’t the rules be irrelevant anyway if the sub is no longer properly moderated?
They will simply restore the content.
Users have reported they are restoring comments they deleted using Power Delete Suite.
Edit your content, dont just delete
They could undo that as well. My current plan is to get all my data via GDPR request, host it on my server so that my useful posts and comments don’t get lost forever and then order them to delete all my stuff via a GDPR request.
Can they? It doesnt seem so simple because they have no way of knowing which posts are edited in good faith vs not.
They can try to undo comments which sre repeated 10x+ times or something I guess, but editing users comments seems like a really bad move
They shouldn’t be able to know which posts were deleted in good faith either. But here we are. I bet undeleting user content is a big fat GDPR violation. Just gotta find someone who cares enough to sue.
First post on Lemmy thanks to this shit! Struggling to understand how a lot of it works still, but absolutely fuck this nonsense from Reddit
As a user not running your own instance, it’s very similar to Reddit.
It’s pretty straightforward really. Just be sure to branch out a bit and look at content from other instances - although, as a lemmy.world user you currently can’t interact with beehaw.org.
IMO the option here would be to open the sub, but implement new rules.
Nowhere does it say the sub needs to be on topic. There are many off-topic subs out there (that news sub that’s mostly porn, marijuanaenthusiasts).
From now on, only text posts containing a punchline to the joke “why did the chicken cross the road” are allowed.
Like r/pics?
Yeah I realized after posting it they started using that strategy. I really hope it works for them.
Isn’t it better to just tell everyone to come here?
Reddit would definitely not let us make posts about that. If they go as far as hijaking moderators, do you think they won’t go as far as ban anyone who mentioned lemmy?
Let them ban! It’s not like we’re going back after July 1st anyway!
Use this link http://join-lemmy.org
How would that ruin the subreddit though?
That will be on the Tonight Show for sure, easy bait
