• @Xanvial@lemmy.one
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    02 years ago

    Why is there no lemmy.world community at all? I’m pretty sure it has a lot of big communities

    • @Zetaphor@zemmy.cc
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      12 years ago

      Putting all of the large communities on a single instance is just reddit with more steps. It’s good that one of the larger Lemmy communities is not also on the largest Lemmy instance. Lemmy.world suffers a lot of outages (in part because it’s so centralized), meanwhile this community remains available.

  • 10EXP
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    132 years ago

    Likely a combination of the community having more tech savvy individuals + realising Reddit would fuck over r/Piracy eventually, making more of them follow dbzer0 here when they were overthrown.

    • RBG
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      02 years ago

      Plus the downfall of the lemmy.fmhy.ml server, which had a pretty big and active piracy community too.

          • LollerCorleone
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            -12 years ago

            Oh yes, I have heard a lot of cases like this related to freenom. They deactivate domains that get traction and resell them at a premium (mostly to spammy ad networks that hoard domains).

    • @biddy@feddit.nl
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      42 years ago

      Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That’s how I found it.

    • Warrior of Ukraine
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      72 years ago

      Reddit will ban the community anyways in the future. That will 100% happen.

      A self hosted forum for piracy discussion is always the best choice. I personally prefer cs.rin.ru over lemmy or reddit.

      • @Gork@lemm.ee
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        12 years ago

        Piracy-friendly subreddits are not looked kindly by the advertisers that fund Reddit now. I think you’re right.

  • db0M
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    2 years ago

    That’s kinda strange, not gonna lie. I was expecting a lot more subs in the meme communities etc.

    I do find it interesting that when lemmy instances are mentioned, lemmy.dbzer0.com is mentioned as an afterthought, if at all :D

    • Unruffled [they/them]
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      12 years ago

      I reckon it’s probably a good thing we are flying under the radar in the media tbh. Media attention might draw other forms of unwanted attention. It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out over the next year or so though. Those meme communities have a lot of growth potential given their demographic.

  • @1984@lemmy.today
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    2 years ago

    Because people here are tired of being exploited by corps I would assume.

    Also it’s a teenage thing. No money but wants to play all the latest games. :)

    I used to download every single game when I was a kid.

  • LimeWire
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    12 years ago

    🏴‍☠️ Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate! 🏴‍☠️

  • @Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    32 years ago

    Keep in mind that Lemmy.world communities are not listed due to crawling issues.

  • tal
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    22 years ago

    My understanding is that there had been an ongoing concern on /r/piracy that they would get shut down at some point, that this had been a concern in the past, and so the other stuff like the API restrictions and the rest of the spez drama was kind of just adding to the big factor pushing people away – that the community could vanish at any time.

    The lead mod on /r/piracy also set up a dedicated instance – there was definite commitment – made it clear that he was making the move, and was demodded on /r/piracy, so there were factors creating more inertia.

    Those are all factors that did not generally exist for other communities.

  • @zoe@lemm.ee
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    02 years ago

    german instances are stable overall, so they can afford the high community user count

  • sprl
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    12 years ago

    Although good for the active community, I don’t feel like it’s a great advertisement of lemmy for the wider public