Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.

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.

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.

Well I guess its time to flood r/piracy with magnet links as soon as the new jannies open it.

Not sure about the optics of Reddit force-reenabling a subreddit devoted to piracy LOL

"In analyzing the availability of the immunity offered by Section 230, courts generally apply a three-prong test. A defendant must satisfy each of the three prongs to gain the benefit of the immunity:

1. The defendant must be a "provider or user" of an "interactive computer service".
2. The cause of action asserted by the plaintiff must treat the defendant as the "publisher or speaker" of the harmful information at issue.

3. The information must be "provided by another information content provider", i.e., the defendant must not be the "information content provider" of the harmful information at issue."

If Reddit the company is now picking and choosing who approves or blocks harmful information, are they an information content provider now? Are they liable if their chosen mods allow harmful content?

Obvious that this is automated and will be going out to all subs. They definitely wouldn't go to bat to keep a piracy sub open, unless they're even dumber than I thought.

This is happening all over reddit.

Mods are posting all over the place saying "I have to bend over for the admins because if I don't they'll find someone else who will".

You do you but honestly I find this a bit weird. As an unpaid volunteer you don't have to do anything. Just resign. Reddit's not about to die but it's best days are in the past. I wouldn't want to be a part of the future of reddit.

So Reddit is forcing open a piracy sub. I wonder how potential investors would feel about that?

If reddit decides to moderate the Piracy subreddit directly, does that mean that they'll be responsible to respond to DMCA requests? If so, that's going to be a shitshow all in itself.

Lemmy it is, then.

So basically, according to Reddit, they own everything on Reddit. That means all the the CP, hate speech — and in this case, piracy — that are posted on Reddit are Reddit's responsibility. Bold strategy, cotton. They're basically waiving their net neutrality.

Whenever you see inserted words, please imagine an awkwardly moving but very colorful parrot squawking it.

The ability to find and make these connections prrrofits is incredibly important to many people ourrr sharrreholders, and ensuring that active communities are able to remain [a] stable and active (and open) source of prrrofits is very important forrr us!

Our goal here is to work with the existing mod team to find a path forward into exile and make sure your subreddit is usable for the community company which makes its home monnney here.

1: Funny we were all in here like two days ago saying "they'll probably be happy to have the piracy sub gone"

2: Any member of the existing mod team that helps them is a fucking scab

3: Everyone else has made a good point about some potential liability issues of reddit the corporation wresting control of the piracy subreddit into their own hands

4: There are so many layers of irony with a corporation saying people need to have access to the community that tells them how to commit copyright infringement and then forcing that information into the open despite what its caretakers wish.

Make sure you remove any and all bots created, and delete all the custom work you did. Reddit can probably restore it, but it'll take them time and effort to do so.

This bullshit made me nuke my 30k karma account. I hope lemmy won't die month later.

Reopen with the new rules: All posts must relate to the golden age of piracy!

That was enough to get me to officially sign up here.

Lol, gtfo. Fuck that place anyway.

I'd be surprised if the subreddit survives the IPO anyways

Welp! I'm glad I made the switch to Lemmy at least.

We'll build a better ship with a sturdier ram, 32 pounder cannons and free wenches and rum! Dbzer0 for captain, 2023

LMAO and these guys wanting to reopen /r/piracy are awaiting IPO. Any investor not seeing the issues at hand here deserve all the misfortune they'll get.

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.

Fuck those Reddit punks, people can make a better piracy community in the fediverse.

They are afraid. Gold, just means we need to keep working on making this community better. Stronger.

Its an industrial lockout so classically you either organize and strike even harder or burn down the capitalist pigs factory.

Whatever happens rest assured that we will keep the community alive and well here!

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.

Be sure to remove as much as you can and heavily encourage heavy contributors to delete their comment history. They have no value without our data.

Yup, this is gonna happen to all the big subreddits sooner or later. /videos is next.

Yeah in the antiwork subreddit my comments are instantly shadowbanned, my old comments in other subs show up , reddit is in major emergency mode apparently.

Good

Move all the information here and run power delete suite on you reddit accounts while you still can with links to join-lemmy.org, I think that will hurt them quite a bit.

So, is that an order to abandon ship?

It looks like the sub is now in restricted mode - is that the doing of the other members of the mod team or is admin trying to control outrage?

I like this ship we building here. Lets make it good for sailing again bois.

Arrgh, if it be mutiny then we stand by ye captain. Unfurl the sails and man the cannons ye land'lubbers.

Our new ship is strong!

Here come the scab mods!

😪 sadge. Hopefully something comes better out of this 🤷

Seems like reddit openly aknowledging they have this kind of power, control, and willingness to take administrative action in a piracy sub would open them up to some DMCA issues for hosting it.

Wow, didn't figure they'd go so blatantly mask off this early on. They must be nervous.

Also dumb. Have they never dealt with pirates before? Cut off one head and two more grow to replace it. Good luck you shmucks.

lol imagine being so desperate for the protest to come to an end that you are even targeting a community that engages in legally questionable activity.

I'm sure the process of determining what mods to DM was automated, but even so, it's still pretty funny to me.

I reinvited you in case you care.

Well, good thing that you prepared well in advance and have already built a nice alternative.

Reddit is done

This should somehow be made known outside the fediverse, to bring more people away from reddit and to here

Reddit proverbially taking their ball and going home lmao

They went easy on you. Some overzealous mod permabanned my entire account for talking about Lemmy. Allegedly against their 'content guidelines'

Archive and delete is the only language those scurvy dogs speak.

I think this calls for the subreddit to get rm -rf /*'d so that reddit gets nothing.

This shouldn't be a surprise... It was only a matter of time after Reddit got taken over by the CCP...