All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.
I’m concerned about this comment in the linked Reddit post.
What does it mean, “same mods”? What about “safety”? Can someone clarify?
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.
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.
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
Just wanted to say thank you for your service over the two platforms.
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.
If we get instance sponsors it will probably in the instance sidebar, but for now we don’t quite need them
Fuck ads, they’re everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
No one is forcing you to see them, especially given that this is an open source system with open source clients.
Also, how much are you paying/contributing to the developers, admins and moderators in order to avoid the need of alternative methods of funding?
I’ve been saying this for over a year. The era of free stuff on the internet is coming to a close. Be prepared to pay or self host things you’re used to getting for free. It’s what got me into self hosting.
I mean, you’re definitely not wrong. All of these mbin sites are typically pretty small but once they cross the point where you’re looking at getting a second server to keep the site running then prices start to escalate.
Modern servers are pretty good but I believe depending on how well the software is written that should be somewhere around 10,000 concurrent users.
If they are using cloud hosting their prices will escalate alongside their user counts but if they are using co-location or something like that they have to go out and buy additional boxes at the cost of several thousand dollars a piece and pay for extra space in the colocation center.
They should definitely make it easy for us to contribute to running the site or at the very least do regular planned donation drives kind of like Wikipedia.
I agree so much with you, I am running a commercial provider for Fediverse services for almost five years. The problem is that we are still a very tiny minority relative to the amount of internet users.
Most likely this incident is an indirect result of that coup. After that, they had to rapidly replenish the mod team and didn’t have time to vet people, so they ended up with someone like this.
FWIW my recollection from looking over sunbothersco at the time was that they were a clout-seeker with no meaningful history on /r/piracy - they were repeatedly and aggressively asking to be made top mod of a wide variety of subs at the time, with no real connection between them. It sucks that reddit was forcing out top mods, but I wish they’d at least followed through on their threat to make it democracy, since there’s no way we would have ended up with someone like that if the system had been anything but “randomly hand the sub to whoever asks first and loudest.”
We absolutely will never boost posts for money here.
Can’t wait to look back on this comment in a few years
You trying to imply smt?
I’d recommend ignoring the uninformed or ignorant bait
it doesn’t make sense as the fediverse systems here are under an AGPL-3.0 license
I’d assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for
hmm after rereading the initial comment I mean it’s not impossible but I’d posit that it’s highly unlikely as the majority of us have already experienced the dynamics where doing so would drive our users away to another instance like the initial reddit implosion
I’d assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for
and yes that’d probably be it
yes
Don’t be a coward, say what you mean.
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
look at that idiot, typical redditor behavior talking shit from their ass as if they are experts on what they are talking about
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.
The megathread is here if anyone is wondering
I mean…Aint our admin also the former main mod of the subreddit?
Yes
Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.
What is a reddit? /s
An LLM database builder.
Haha, damn.
I tried to find reddit on duckduckgo to answer this quesiton, but I didn’t get any results :(
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.
Is… Is there some reason not to send that much money via PayPal?
Asking for a friend.
PayPal allow easy reversal if transactions. Their dispute team favour protecting the buyer by far.
That’s an understatement, PayPal will pretty much always side with the buyer no matter how ridiculous and outlandish their claim. I even had one “dispute” where the scammer changed the dispute reason which caused PayPal to ignore what I’d already submitted and close it in their favour by default as “no response”. PayPal is very much pro-scammer, avoid if possible.
It’s been a few years since I’ve had to deal with clients directly, I don’t think I’ll ever miss it.
As a buyer, I’ve had to fight hard to get items returned to scammy sellers.
I only ask because I have some members of my family transfer money between them, and it’s usually a high amount like that.
No problem there
Not…sure why someone downvoted you…
Looks like OP removed their own upvote that gets added by default when posting (probably by accident).
That’s fair.
It’s harder for corruption and lawyers to target multiple instances rather than one centralized location
Love the recruiting that you all are doing in there.
Let no crisis go to waste :D
one person’s footgun is another’s opportunity lol
- Microsoft Crowdstrike and Linux
- Unity and Godot
Crowdstrike is not owned or in any way in a business relationship with Microsoft, offers the software that caused the issue for Mac and Linux as well, and in fact caused similar issues on specific Linux Distros a few months before this recent cock up.
The issue only effected Windows OS machines that were running the Crowdstrike Falcon endpoint protection software, which runs at ring 0, kernel level. This presents the same potential for causing boot loops in all OSes due to the nature of running software that deep into the guts of things. The only caveat is that some Linux Distros have separation preventing things from running at that low level, and apparently so does Mac OS.
The update was not pushed out through Microsoft, as many are incorrectly repeating. It was a malware definitions update which was downloaded automatically by the Falcon software itself, without any configuration options available for admins to stage and do partial rollouts for testing.
Also, I significantly doubt that any company is going to do a complete overhaul of its IT architecture to switch over to a new OS for end user devices, when the simplest solution is to just switch to a different endpoint protection software. I’ve worked half a decade in an enterprise architecture type position, that simply isn’t how things work in this world.
Thanks for linking the Reddit thread. I tried to do my part to spread the word. The more people talk about Lemmy on Reddit, the more people users will switch.
Of course getting people over from reddit is nice, but honestly the exact same thing can happen here as well. We’ll always depend on the integrity of the people with mod status.
Man, what a joke Reddit has become after the 3rd party exodus, seems like most good subs went to shit.
Luckily this lead us to Lemmy and the Fediverse, which – in my opinion – is more akin to Aaron Swartz’s original vision.
He would’ve had a Lemmy instance running secretly in a server closet somewhere on the MIT campus.
Never forget that MIT caused his death
IMO this has nothing to do with the 3rd party stuff, stupid mods getting scammed for $800 has nothing to do with Reddit decisions
Well if all the good mods leave and you only have the bad ones left or people who come in just to profit, you get this.
Oh that’s really transparently a scam
Out of curiosity, is our megathread the same as theirs? If so, it might be time to make our own independently of theirs.
So we aren’t using an unauthorised copy?
How baller would it be to pirate a piracy megathread
Disappointing tgat we arent when you put it that way
Check the wiki. We already have our own
With blackjack and hookers?
I just now noticed it says tumoil instead of turmoil
Nah OP pulled an edit
Shit site has gone to shit. Shocker.
Least corrupt reddit mod
I thought I wasn’t gonna give a shit about this, but it was quite enjoyable. Too bad, so sad! Looks like that guy’s discord is now well known for the wrong reasons…
I read that the (banned) member joined reddit a short time ago, I wonder how he became a mod
sucked cock
