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.
“If they’re too lazy to spend 10 years digging through and understanding technology so that they can find, download, and parse a strange archive of a no-longer-existing forum, then spend months reading through that to find the hidden gems, then they’re just not worthy of my hobby and fuck them!”
THIS. This is exactly the attitude I want for mods in a piracy forum. And for the defenders of those moderator candidates.
The positive, uplifting attitude, the graciousness, the politeness. Just all of it. Why wouldn’t he (and you!) be a great mod?
You’ve never stopped to think about this a day in your life, have you?
Piracy is a numbers thing. If there are 5 of us, no matter how good we are at it, this dies. It just does. If there are 50 million of us, they can’t ever hope to stomp us out. So yeh, if the laziest users are willing to lazily “use” once in awhile, that helps me even if it can be irritating.
I knew of a piracy “scene” that is deader than coffin nails… userbase too small. Started infighting, the elites wanted to get rid of the lazy users, became even smaller. Now dead. No IRC, no forums, no nothing. When you try to do research on it, you find 16 year old posts to forum pages that sometimes you get to read the Google cache for, or maybe Wayback has a copy. Should be the opposite, the tools available today, should be easier than ever. But just gone.
That’s what you and people like you would turn it all into if you had your way.