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Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.

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[–] sider222@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I like this ship we building here. Lets make it good for sailing again bois.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Arrgh, if it be mutiny then we stand by ye captain. Unfurl the sails and man the cannons ye land'lubbers.

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Reopen with the new rules: All posts must relate to the golden age of piracy!

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its an industrial lockout so classically you either organize and strike even harder or burn down the capitalist pigs factory.

[–] eric3a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Our new ship is strong!

[–] user@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

😪 sadge. Hopefully something comes better out of this 🤷

[–] Faendol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Here come the scab mods!

[–] ethane@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make sure you remove any and all bots created, and delete all the custom work you did. Reddit can probably restore it, but it'll take them time and effort to do so.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They can restore the bot accounts, sure, but they can't restore the servers that run those bot accounts.

[–] rvreq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This bullshit made me nuke my 30k karma account. I hope lemmy won't die month later.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's literally impossible! An instance may go down, but it will stay cached.

[–] rvreq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okie, I'm absolute noob here. Right now I struggle to find night mode. :D

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Settings > Theme

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like reddit openly aknowledging they have this kind of power, control, and willingness to take administrative action in a piracy sub would open them up to some DMCA issues for hosting it.

[–] yukichigai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, didn't figure they'd go so blatantly mask off this early on. They must be nervous.

Also dumb. Have they never dealt with pirates before? Cut off one head and two more grow to replace it. Good luck you shmucks.

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We'll just tell the pirates that what they're doing is wrong and they'll stop right? Right?

[–] PirateForDaLolz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

lol imagine being so desperate for the protest to come to an end that you are even targeting a community that engages in legally questionable activity.

I'm sure the process of determining what mods to DM was automated, but even so, it's still pretty funny to me.

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This should somehow be made known outside the fediverse, to bring more people away from reddit and to here

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

please do share. I can only spread the word so much.

[–] Sal@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Well, good thing that you prepared well in advance and have already built a nice alternative.

Reddit is done

[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I reinvited you in case you care.

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[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They went easy on you. Some overzealous mod permabanned my entire account for talking about Lemmy. Allegedly against their 'content guidelines'

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your entire account would have to be admin level wouldn't it?

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure mate. I've had a target on my back for the last couple of years I believe. I had a bunch of accounts at one stage for different purposes. I used to post a lot of long-form content: reviews, how-to tech guides etc etc and as a self preservation technique I kept each niche to a seperate account.

Over the last 2 years I had one 11 year old account, one 8 year old account and another few fresher ones perma-banned with no reason given, or just the flimsiest excuse under the sun. I must have really pissed off one of the mods/ admins - they can track you by IP and browser info etc.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Given the size of Reddit, admins don't check when mods abuse users, I had my 10 yr account with 150K nearly permabanned because of a mod banning me from my own countries sub for posting a non offensive meme on the wrong day.

I wasn't logged in on a computer, was using Reddit which showed me my local subs by default and the saved login credentials was a different alt.

I was typing a comment reply, realised I wasn't logged and signed in with the other alt, didn't realise it wasn't another local sub and I got suspended Reddit wide for "ban evasion" and nearly lost a decade old major account because a mod in my countries sub abused their position.

I never retaliated, wasn't rude, didn't genuinely try to evade the ban and nearly lost a decade of activity.

There are a lot of benefits to the fediverse and I plan on hosting my own personal instance soon.

[–] amansrevenger@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah in the antiwork subreddit my comments are instantly shadowbanned, my old comments in other subs show up , reddit is in major emergency mode apparently.

Good

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yea, is that up anywhere on here yet or not yet?

[–] morelikepinniped@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

!antiwork@lemmy.ml

[–] peroleu@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit proverbially taking their ball and going home lmao

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[–] NM156@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This shouldn't be a surprise... It was only a matter of time after Reddit got taken over by the CCP...

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Explain?

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can't even begin to imagine what the world looks like to you.

[–] parski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Archive and delete is the only language those scurvy dogs speak.

[–] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will simply restore the content.

Users have reported they are restoring comments they deleted using Power Delete Suite.

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edit your content, dont just delete

[–] Bjoern_Tantau@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

They could undo that as well. My current plan is to get all my data via GDPR request, host it on my server so that my useful posts and comments don't get lost forever and then order them to delete all my stuff via a GDPR request.

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