Hey y’all, In the past I had arranged that /f/piracy in raddle.me would be the fallback forum for /r/piracy, but I recently noticed that raddle.me has disabled new user registrations and that would be a problem in case we need it.

And with reddit about to go public, it might be needed.

Instead of trying to spin up my own lemmy instance, I was thinking if I could get a mod position in this forum and specify it as the official /r/piracy fallback instead.

Feel free to PM me in reddit for verification.

  • dogmuffins
    158·
    3 years ago

    This is such a weird request.

    It’s inevitable that lemmy will be a refuge for redditors at some point (although I don’t necessarily think that the IPO will cause an exodus), but that doesn’t mean that lemmy needs to mirror reddit.

    Therefore IMO mod status on reddit is nothing more than “relevant experience”, with the caveat that it comes with an obvious agenda.

    I guess the real actual question is whether lemmy.ml/f/piracy should be promoted by reddit.com/r/piracy as the sanctioned alternative. Which again is a weird request. The present mods responsibility is to serve the interests of the present subscribers. Im making some assumptions here but if present subscribers wanted this to be just like reddit, they would just be on reddit rather than here.

    Suffice to say, if it were up to me I would politely decline this request.

    • uthredii
      92·
      3 years ago

      The present mods responsibility is to serve the interests of the present subscribers.

      I disagree, mods in general are dooing free labour for the benefit of the community.

      The mod of r/piracy (one of the best resources for pirated content I have found) thinks having a backup on Lemmy would help the community. So maybe we should support this instead of saying it’s not their responsibility lol

      • dogmuffins
        72·
        3 years ago

        That’s my point though. “The community” in this case is not reddit users, but lemmy users. As I said, it’s really a question of whether existing users in this sub want it to be a mirror of reddit’s sub.

    • DPUGT2
      7·
      3 years ago

      but that doesn’t mean that lemmy needs to mirror reddit.

      Given the trajectory of reddit over the years, it might be true that you’d all be better off if you took action to prevent it from being too similar.

      I guess the real actual question is whether lemmy.ml/f/piracy should be promoted by reddit.com/r/piracy as the sanctioned alternative.

      A more important question, I think, perhaps the only one even, is whether Lemmy is any less vulnerable to the sorts of legal attacks that make r/piracy so problematic. I suspect I know the answer to this question, and that many of the rest of you do as well… it just happens to be one that none of us like.