Almost 5K Pirates migrated to lemmy. We're now 4th in lemmy communities browser!

Incredible growth. just goes to show how little we needed to be in Reddit.

For reference: https://browse.feddit.de/

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Neat. I tried getting into fediverse a couple time during the last 3 years and everytime I'd get bored after a day or two.
This time it feels different though. I never imagined there would be this much activity on here. We really oughta thank spez lmao
Pirates are used to migrating en masse
I wish a lot of the other subreddits staying dark had a plan like this too.
- Yep, a lot of them are just missing the opportunity
That's awesome! Honestly, the move away from Reddit is probably the best thing that could happen to our community. r/Piracy was always a few DMCAs away from not existing anymore. I'm not super familiar with how Lemmy works under the hood, but from what little I do understand, I think we're probably safer here.
- Fundamentally the risk to the community is similar, all it takes is for an instance administrator to decide to nuke the community and there'll be nothing we can do about it. But unlike on Reddit, there's no single administrator that can nuke every piracy community. There will always be a piracy community somewhere on Lemmy, even if it isn't this one
  
  The risk is significantly reduced if the instance its running on and the domain host is in a country that isnt legally obligated to honor DMCA takedowns. Wothout doing research, this instance likely is in a major country, and therefor not its permanent location because of this. but whats different than reddit is we have the capability to host the servers ourself where we want.
  Once(if) its taken down, another instance can be run from a more friendly country and DMCA notices wont have any weight legally.
  The only problem then would be popular home instances going excommunicado with the pirate instance like that bee one did recently
Long live Lemmy and screw reddit
I was so glad to see that r/piracy moved here. Reddit's fucking anti-piracy policies hindered every discussion.
FUCK YOU SPEZ!
Community makes things grate, I believe in it, so let's go lemmy.
I'm assuming that the venn diagram of people willing to set up a seedbox overlaps near 100% with those willing to figure out the "fediverse"
If this place was to shutdown I think I'd be lost, hopefully we don't die down.
How do you sort the browser by largest community? It doesn't appear to sort that way by default.

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