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Reddit /r/piracy in turmoil as a mod caught taking bribes to promote posts (www.reddit.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 132 points 3 months ago

I'm concerned about this comment in the linked Reddit post.

What does it mean, "same mods"? What about "safety"? Can someone clarify?

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 288 points 3 months ago

I used to be top mod of piracy until the reddit blackouts last year, where I was demoted by the admins in a secret coup. I was reinstated by other mods, but have been idle since.

sunbothersco is also the top mod in /r/piracy and it mostly maintaining the megathread but is not very active in lemmy.

We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 77 points 3 months ago

Thanks. That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too. I believe people here wouldn't be letting things fall apart (there is a reason people moved away from Reddit and the quality of content here is proof).

I was surprised to see those comments implying the megathread was no longer reliable though, I figured it was a stretch but had no idea why would they be thinking that.

[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 26 points 3 months ago

That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too.

tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case cause after reddit's self-made implosion with the API access debacle, the majority of us migrated to (fediverse instances such as) mastodon and here

[-] sadbehr@lemmy.nz 17 points 3 months ago

Just wanted to say thank you for your service over the two platforms.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To be quite honest, I wouldn't mind sponsored posts as a way to support a community or instance, as long as they were completely disclosed as so and if the sponsor had no control over the moderation.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 3 months ago

If we get instance sponsors it will probably in the instance sidebar, but for now we don't quite need them

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 36 points 3 months ago

Fuck ads, they're everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.

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[-] fin@sh.itjust.works 51 points 3 months ago

It seems that all posts/comments advocating migration to Lemmy are downvoted there. It’s truly sad that they still don’t realize Reddit is not a safe place anymore to talk about piracy and stuff

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

It may be selfish but i don't want a reddit migration. I don't hate redditors cuz i was one (ok i do hate em but only the regular hate redditors have for each other) but if this place became as popular as that one, it would bring with it the things i deliberately left behind.

Lemmy is great the way it is

[-] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

I don't think so. I think Lemmy already & inherently has many of the same problems. People are people, no matter where you go.

Lemmy is only better because it's not centrally controlled.

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[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago

I'm of the belief that more people more opinions wether you agree or not with them is always better. Reddit and here on Lemmy is both an "echo chamber" of there own making.

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[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 3 months ago

I honestly see no reason to use Reddit for its Piracy Megathread. Lemmy’s user base is much more friendly, helpful and the Megathread here is the same (if not better) organized than there.

Not only that, I remember there was quite some problems among the mods on Reddit. So I’m not surprised something like this happened. Once there’s a slight fracture, it’ll slowly but steadily get broken into pieces entirely.

I don’t see much decent content on both Piracy and PiratedGames subreddit anyway. Majority is memes, ‘is this safe’ and spam posts about empress.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 54 points 3 months ago

The megathread is here if anyone is wondering

https://rentry.co/megathread

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[-] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 86 points 3 months ago

The mod u/Furdiburd10 who manually approved and stickied the post has been removed from the mod team. Reddit's spam filter actually caught it early on and the community helped mass report. They also fully censored comments from yall calling it out.

What a giant loser.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 64 points 3 months ago

Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 56 points 3 months ago

What is a reddit? /s

[-] Steve@communick.news 55 points 3 months ago

An LLM database builder.

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[-] cheddar@programming.dev 16 points 3 months ago

I tried to find reddit on duckduckgo to answer this quesiton, but I didn't get any results :(

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[-] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit's default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.

The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod's PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.