cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555.
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.
Btw Piracy moved to:
@piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Run by the same mod. They have their megathread, faqs, and everything up already. Everything that they need for their community to start again in this new place… I would imagine the users of a sub all about piracy are absolutely fine about leaving Reddit for something new.
ETA: Comment edited so you can see the whole magazine name.
Amazing news to have r/piracy here! Hopefully they have more liberty here and can talk openly
Off subject, but I just discovered I can’t comment on kbin. Just when I thought I had the fediverse figured out.
I’m on kbin.social and I see your comment. What network/instance do you have your account on?
The link posted is only useful if your account is with kbin.social. Go to [URL your account is with]/[c if Lemmy, or m if kbin]/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
For you, that would be https://lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Searching !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com in your Lemmy instances search (burger menu -> search) should also work, and links to /c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com should work on the Lemmy web client, and should work in the next release of Jerboa (0.0.35) judging by https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pulse
Yes, I discovered later that when I submit my comment it shortens it. I’ll try to edit my comment.
Really hope someone fix this at some point, because it is a pain in the ass a so simple thing as just hypertexting another instance
It’s amazing that the threat to unmod people actually worked, and a lot of subreddits are reopening, saying that “they have no other option”. It shows that mods care more about their place in their subreddit than the community they supposedly did their protest for.
Exactly. They say the threat is that the sub will be reopened and then counter the threat by… reopening it?
The sub is getting opened either way. The choice they have to make has nothing to do with whether the sub opens or not, it’s about the principle of the protest. They’re showing quite clearly that they never cared for that aspect. They just want the “i’ma good mod you guys, honest” rep. Cowards.
I think time will tell. Maybe opening it up and maintaining mod status will let them be able to burn it down from the inside. /r/pics has shifted the protest into only allowing pictures of John Oliver. Had all the mods been removed and replaced and the sub opened, then thats effectively the end of the protest.
/r/pics is one of the strongest protest subs on my feed right now, I think it’s the right idea. /r/interestingasfuck is even better.
They are not cowards. They own and protect their property from destruction. Wouldn’t you say you would?
Communities aren’t property.
I foresee another great article…
Reddit CEO forces a number of subreddits to open, starting with ‘copyright infringement’ subreddit /r/Piracy and ‘anti-capitalist’ subreddit r/antiwork
Just keep digging spez. Maybe you’ll make it to China and you can start WeQQit. Not to be confused with Wreqqit, which is what you’re doing here.
Why do they want a piracy community reopened?
It’s kind of hilarious. For years the mods of /r/piracy have been walking on eggshells about what kinds of links and discussion are permitted there because they were afraid Reddit would shut them down at any moment. And now Reddit is tossing the mods that worked so hard to toe their line and forcing them open.
Likely they don’t. It was probably sent to all indefinite blackout subs.
Yeah, that’s quite confusing, you’d think they might not be exactly rushing to open one of the more legally complicated subs.
Big bruh moment
Someone should send this to relevant investors and DMCA authority, I’m sure they’ll love it
Wait this doesn’t add up. The posted screen shot isn’t coercive. It’s asking if anyone on the mod team is willing to betray their fellow mods. If not, cool. Sounds like there were one or more mods on the /r/piracy team who chose the “betray” thing.
