Indefinite Blackout: Next Steps, Polling Your Community, and Where We Go From Here
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On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced a policy change that will kill essentially every third-party Reddit app now operating, from...

If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they’ve got another thing coming…

  • Hhffggshn@lemmy.clickEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m here for this, and appreciate the r sub making a stand.

    I do hope the wiki can be set up here. I’m an old woman and I need a lot of support whilst sailing the high seas.

  • kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    /r/Piracy and /r/FMHY were one of my favorite communities of Reddit, I’m so glad they are here in Lemmy!

    • Xanthrax@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I feel like it’s going to take a while, but as niche subs migrate, hopefully we’ll see more content. That’s the biggest thing we’re really lacking is user content.

  • Kuroneko@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Just subscribed here and want to say I completely support you doing an indefinite blackout.

  • LongDongKong@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Sounds good to me. The people participating in piracy are the type to quickly adapt to changing technology. Let’s embrace this opportunity.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      39·
      1 year ago

      Remember Lemmy’s growth starts with you, post your favourite things, talk about your favourite things.

  • eric3a@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Agreed. We’re here. No need to go back to Reddit anytime soon. Or ever if the enshitification continues.

  • Blackbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I hate to say this but reddit probably doesn’t care if r/piracy stays dark. We were probably one of the subs they were hoping to get rid of.

    With that said i support the movement. The biggest loss is the institutional knowledge since we can’t just search for an old post

    Is there a mirror of the sub? It’d be great if we could mirror the content here.

    • DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s why this blackout has been a blessing, since piracy days on reddit were numbered anyways. I’m glad we got to get our community elsewhere before being randomly banned before there was an opportunity to regroup.

      Have had many lost communites like megaupload back in the day that reddit killed off. With how helpful the piracy community has been with stuff like the wiki Reddit would have set their eyes on us anyways in the long run.

  • AMindForeverVoyaging@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Well, I hope this means that all those who followed this subreddit will come over here because, in the end, if Lemmy provides enough content to be a Reddit successor, it will succeed but, if it becomes a mere shadow of what was available there, it’ll fade away just like some of the “Twitter replacement” platforms have.

    • Kyle@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Sync for Reddit is thinking of working on Lemmy support. If the big apps move to Lemmy, it could push a lot of traffic to it and keep the exodus going. Encourage it on syncs GitHub and discord server.