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[–] [email protected] 278 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 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 @[email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 238 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 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.

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

Lol, for me it was similar, I had a few things I didn't like about lemm.ee so I ditched my account there and went here by accident (well just by searchimg and it fulfilling all my needs and a ton more things), ended up liking this instance a ton so it became my daily driver

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

💯 👑 Here @[email protected], you dropped this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for your work

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

He is the best , thank you all you do Db0

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

Classic Reddit.

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same mods. I don't particularly hang out in reddit anymore, but @[email protected] is still doing unpaid volunteering for spez :P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

is still doing unpaid volunteering for spez :P

Spez is going to pay back, don't you know about Reddit karma turning into real gold? /s

[–] [email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did redditors treat him? I was subscribed to the sub and I have no idea who db0 is. I recently learned that db0 owns the lemmy.dbzer0.com instance but I don't know anything beyond that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's still one of the top posts on [email protected]: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555?scrollToComments=true . r/piracy went downhill soon after this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So what?

He was a mod and then he wasn't. Why does it matter? Whas he a very active and liked mod or something? And reddit did that not redditors.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's unprecedented at the time because he was the top mod so the only one that can remove him was Reddit admins, and they did. r/piracy fell into a complete chaos shortly after that, lots of awful stuff so I didn't stay long to see how it went.