All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) English118•2 months ago
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.
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) English65•2 months ago
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.
- recursive_recursion [they/them] ( @recursive_recursion@programming.dev ) English21•2 months ago
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
- rglullis ( @rglullis@communick.news ) English24•2 months ago
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
- TeamAssimilation ( @TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ) English31•2 months ago
Fuck ads, they’re everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
- rglullis ( @rglullis@communick.news ) English7•2 months ago
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?
- sadbehr ( @sadbehr@lemmy.nz ) English14•2 months ago
Just wanted to say thank you for your service over the two platforms.
- secret300 ( @secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ) English12•2 months ago
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?
- recursive_recursion [they/them] ( @recursive_recursion@programming.dev ) English16•2 months ago
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
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English3•2 months ago
I’d assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for
- recursive_recursion [they/them] ( @recursive_recursion@programming.dev ) English5•2 months ago
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
- secret300 ( @secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•2 months ago
yes
Don’t be a coward, say what you mean.
- Yglorba ( @Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•1 month ago
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.”
- mr_right ( @mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•2 months ago
look at that idiot, typical redditor behavior talking shit from their ass as if they are experts on what they are talking about
- InfiniteGlitch ( @ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English89•2 months ago
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.
- Hugh_Jeggs ( @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ) English47•2 months ago
The megathread is here if anyone is wondering
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•2 months ago
I mean…Aint our admin also the former main mod of the subreddit?
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months ago
Yes
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) English58•2 months ago
Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.
- JimmyBigSausage ( @JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ) English50•2 months ago
What is a reddit? /s
- Steve ( @Steve@communick.news ) English46•2 months ago
An LLM database builder.
- fossilesque ( @fossilesque@mander.xyz ) English3•2 months ago
Haha, damn.
- Brickfrog ( @brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English47•2 months ago
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.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•2 months ago
Is… Is there some reason not to send that much money via PayPal?
Asking for a friend.
- lazynooblet ( @lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ) English13•2 months ago
PayPal allow easy reversal if transactions. Their dispute team favour protecting the buyer by far.
- my_hat_stinks ( @my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ) English10•2 months ago
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.
- TheGalacticVoid ( @TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee ) English1•2 months ago
As a buyer, I’ve had to fight hard to get items returned to scammy sellers.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•2 months ago
I only ask because I have some members of my family transfer money between them, and it’s usually a high amount like that.
- yessikg ( @yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•2 months ago
No problem there
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•2 months ago
Not…sure why someone downvoted you…
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) English2•2 months ago
Looks like OP removed their own upvote that gets added by default when posting (probably by accident).
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•2 months ago
That’s fair.
- sabreW4K3 ( @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ) English35•2 months ago
Love the recruiting that you all are doing in there.
Let no crisis go to waste :D
- recursive_recursion [they/them] ( @recursive_recursion@programming.dev ) English17•2 months ago
one person’s footgun is another’s opportunity lol
- Microsoft Crowdstrike and Linux
- Unity and Godot
- wizardbeard ( @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•2 months ago
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.
- Azzu ( @Azzu@lemm.ee ) English9•2 months ago
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.
- LiveLM ( @LiveLM@lemmy.zip ) English34•2 months ago
Man, what a joke Reddit has become after the 3rd party exodus, seems like most good subs went to shit.
- Scrollone ( @Scrollone@feddit.it ) English16•2 months ago
Luckily this lead us to Lemmy and the Fediverse, which – in my opinion – is more akin to Aaron Swartz’s original vision.
- Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English13•2 months ago
He would’ve had a Lemmy instance running secretly in a server closet somewhere on the MIT campus.
- Nangt3c ( @Nangt3c@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English0•2 months ago
IMO this has nothing to do with the 3rd party stuff, stupid mods getting scammed for $800 has nothing to do with Reddit decisions
- realitista ( @realitista@lemm.ee ) English0•2 months ago
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.
- aldalire ( @aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English30•2 months ago
- AVincentInSpace ( @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ) English3•2 months ago
Oh that’s really transparently a scam
- CALIGVLA ( @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English23•2 months ago
Out of curiosity, is our megathread the same as theirs? If so, it might be time to make our own independently of theirs.
- Evil_incarnate ( @Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ) English31•2 months ago
So we aren’t using an unauthorised copy?
- thanksforallthefish ( @thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ) English8•2 months ago
Disappointing tgat we arent when you put it that way
Check the wiki. We already have our own
- NaoPb ( @NaoPb@eviltoast.org ) English5•2 months ago
With blackjack and hookers?
- Emerald ( @Emerald@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•2 months ago
I just now noticed it says tumoil instead of turmoil
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•2 months ago
Nah OP pulled an edit
- ulkesh ( @ulkesh@beehaw.org ) English14•2 months ago
Shit site has gone to shit. Shocker.
- sleepybisexual ( @sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ) English11•2 months ago
Least corrupt reddit mod
- Algernon ( @Algernon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•2 months ago
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…
- CaptainBasculin ( @CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ) English9•2 months ago
fuck reddit lmao
- kirbowo808 ( @kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org ) 8•2 months ago
The fact that even happened tbh is insane tbh, but I’m so glad that people are now jumping ship tbh esp what the dumb decisions Reddit has made in the past couple of years.