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And now there are threats to remove moderators. Dying site
  • Yeah, the way Musk bragged about engagement while he burned down Twitter made me wary of even loading Reddit now. No way am I giving that shithead spez the satisfaction to see some, any line go up, if it does anyway it won‘t be because of me.

  • It's Sux That RARBG.com Closed It's Doors
  • I bet so many of us work in IT lmao, we absolutely could do all of that. Issue is that most western people are at risk of law enforcement, just look at a bit of this:

    https://www.reuters.com/world/british-man-gets-22-months-prison-over-global-movie-piracy-us-judge-2022-02-07/

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/02/last-remaining-pirate-bay-founder-freed-from-jail-fredrik-neij

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/german-piracy-sentenced-jail-276076/

    https://ca1.topnews.media/2023/06/15/in-new-zealand-two-men-who-helped-run-the-popular-pirate-site-megaupload-were-sentenced-to-prison-2/

    Or look at Aaron Swartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

    What he got slapped with trying to "steal" (COPY) intellectual "property“ from a university, which hoards knowledge like a dragon.

    That we rely on Russians mainly for our shadow libraries is just one twisted facet of how this whole system is messed up. We could share all information and all human knowledge, with everyone for free!! We could have managed it technologically a decade ago. The monetary cost is so small nerds can now do it alone in their basement.

    People could educate themselves to university levels and get reading comprehension like never seen before. I learned English mostly through books from these online libraries cause I was far from any IRL library in rural Austria and poor. Without it I would have stayed small minded like I was at 18 voting for conservatives.

    Christians preach of sharing, many religions do, yet they (self proclaimed religious politicians and CEOs) put those who want to share it all into the farthest corners of the internet and in prison. To pretend like this possibility doesn‘t exist and one needs to be well off to afford books and go to some special place to get an education. All to make line go up.

  • Almost 5K Pirates migrated to lemmy. We're now 4th in lemmy communities browser!
  • Nice, I just joined too and am already enjoying this community and the whole lemmy thing in general. Some weird stuff about it like instances defederating each other is new to me, but I think I can get used to posting more on here.

  • How the beehaw defederation affects us
  • I‘m just gonna go with whatever communities or bubble of instances feel nice to me and I don‘t mind making multiple accounts for it. Seems like that is not beehaw cause the mods seem too heavy handed for me. Thanks for the post anyway it was insightful.

  • Beehaw* defederated us?
  • It‘s the bubble concept I already curated for myself on Reddit by filtering out what feels like half the website. Except now I can sort of choose my pre-made bubble, which is more effort to be certain (have to research the admins of a chosen instance a bit and understand their rules and values), but I don‘t mind that.

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  • I saw someone talk about "Most people use the official app so their bottom line will be fine!" and that comment pushed me over the edge to uninstall my precious Apollo.

    I hate all these corporations and those that justify their greedy behaviour with "the bottom line" and as it turns out that includes Reddit. It always did, I was just too much into the communities I enjoyed on there to see it.