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Rule 1:

Sexy pirate John Oliver artwork ONLY

Now I have been there for around 4-5 months and Reddit just killing piracy over there and making it a rule uploading this bullshit sucks.

It is not really a useful sub anymore, get off.

Yes I will be active on her though. It is the only useful thing now.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and making it a rule uploading this bullshit sucks

Do you think they just want to troll you?

Have you really not read one of the many stickied posts all over Reddit about the blackout and what the admins are going to do to that website?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's literally the entire point. If the subs are unusable, site traffic falls, Huffman makes less money and looks worse to the investors, and people find better alternatives like here.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Active on her? She's a lucky lady 😂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's honestly hilarious Reddit bungled this so badly as to upset everyone. Ah well, at least with this digital piracy community I can rest assured a corporation isn't censoring discourse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Elon has shown the way to spectacularly self destruct!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reddit is probably going to be happy about the protest in this sub. Can't imagine that investors like the sub about getting stuff for free...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, the sub was closed and Reddit forced it to reopen, so there is an argument they do endorse piracy

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still can't believe Reddit actually decided to do that. I thought they were going to ban the sub or keep it closed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I figured given all the other subs to force back open, they should've just not risked the potential bad-press of appearing to endorse digital piracy right before going public as a company, and just stayed quiet and said nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But then they should be happy we wanted to stay close right? How is a big dead sub better than a private one new people wouldn't even know it exists? Forcing r/piracy open was a very weird decision, I still don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The power of Reddit lies within its very diverse and many communities on special interests. People browsing r/piracy also browse the Frontpage, r/all and so on. But mainly their special interests is what kept them there. Because funny memes can be found everywhere.

Now, if those special interests are not being served any more, people will go elsewhere. So no, I don't think they will be happy and investors won't be either.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Piracy and privacy guides, two main reasons why I'm here. Arggg 🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aye a fellow lemmy.one user 🙋‍♂️🚢

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Aye a fellow lemmy.one user!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@hyperio The great thing is, I don't even have to sign up. I just follow this sub (do you still call it a sub?) from my #Mastodon!

Ahh, bless the #Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think is called community now. At least is c/piracy to access [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You would think that a pirates favorite letter be the r/, but it truly always was the c/.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

pirates be at 'SEA' now...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I regret that all im able to give you is a mere upvote

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It won't be the same without RARBG. 😭

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i still miss isohunt and mininova

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I've not thought about Isohunt for a looooong time. That takes me back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Mininova? I still miss Suprnova!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wow haven't heard those names in ages

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

yeah, consistently great 1080p X265 releases you could rely on them, this was a big loss for me, nobody release that many X265 releases that fast, PSA only mainstream, megusta only TV shows, everything else either too slow or too rare

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've switched to the RBG and INFINITY x265 1080p releases from TorrentFunk or 1337x. IMO they are a decent replacement for the RARBG x265 1080p releases but its hard to find some movies.

The selection on RARBG was just insane..

That being said. You can still find plenty of the old releases on other trackers.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

@hyperio

Ohhh, what a clueless summer child. Hussshh, everything will be alright.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Let's do it then

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Arr, take my wooden peg!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quick question, how does this piracy community compare with fmhy?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fmhy are just providers of the instance and that's what their general communities focus on. For information regarding the high seas, this is the community you want to look into.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No actually fmhy is technically a "competitor" to this community if you want to call it that. I personally think fmhy has a better megathread than this one due to it being updated much more frequently, but essentially both communities are similar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Either one community will become big and the other small.

Or, the two communities will start going into niches (like, one being more focused on movies and the other games)

And seeing as you can subscribe to both, I assume that these communities will assist each other.

The strength of federation is that you have no "one-true-community" anymore. If one gets sick (I.e. Reddit) you have other safe havens to take over

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ich war dabei. Los Piraten!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I didn't use /r/piracy, but I do read this forum

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm afraid to ask, but why John Oliver?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He makes Last Week Tonight which is a show with a big reach, Reddit-Mods are essentially pinging him.

He did respond on Twitter with a dump of sexy-pictures of him to post.

The show is on pause because of the writers-strike at the moment, so it might take a while for this to be a topic.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just the quality of replies and posts here over the old sub, is honestly alone worth the move.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've even ventured back to IRC for some things. This Reddit explosion has opened all sorts of old doors for me, it's very refreshing.

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