Why wouldn’t they want to stay? It works for them. Before ideology, before morality, before any other thing you can conceive of is plain, simple convenience. And Reddit is certainly convenient. Once enough users leave, they’ll leave, too.

/r/Piracy

That’s not the real games piracy sub anyways. The true successor of the scene-watching community is and always was /r/CrackWatch and even there people are very aware that they’re not contributors, just spectators. So basically, it was a place for movies piracy, and movies piracy is and always been the most piss easy, top result on google piracy around. I haven’t gone on a single website to pirate movies in a decade, shit is all searchable either directly on qBit and deluge or on tracker tools.

They don’t want to come over, so what? They’re irrelevant. A wiki service reddit, barely anything else. A place for people who unironically install uTorrent and don’t even know what the u stands for.

Hey, they can stay on Reddit with their beloved memes, I don’t really care.

To be fair, anyone who actually cares is not on reddit anymore, so you’re seeing the worst of the worst takes.

A lot of people on r/piracy are pirates by convenience, not by ethics. The sub being shut down is not convenient for them. It’s really sad to see how many people have the attention span of a goldfish, and can’t think beyond “this isn’t convenient for me today.”

Someone should point them to what happened over at r/assholedesign
I would, but I don’t know how to do that without breaking the first rule

Because Lemmy isn’t as conveniently accessed, and it’s just slow.

It’s also confusing.

It’s so hard to join lemmy now, and everything lags in lemmy even just an upvote…

1. Lemmy still has the same inherent drawbacks of Reddit, but now the mods have complete power with no admin oversight whatsoever.

2. The moderators of a community have no right to kill it. If people wish to leave for Lemmy, I welcome it. if the other sub died naturally, I’d migrate over here myself (the same way I migrated to Reddit gradually through dozens of forums dying naturally)

Forcefully trying to kill the sub serves no purpose other than to centralize piracy knowledge, benefit Reddits IPO by getting rid of a hated subreddit, and allow more mod censorship. Also, Lemmy isn’t indexed by google, so you’re fully reliant on the inbuilt search unlike Reddit. (which makes Lemmy less useful for finding specific content)

3. Lemmy is still in it’s early stages. I’m a part of 1k+ communities on Reddit and fewer than half have a prescence on Lemmy or an equivalent.

4. Dearth of NSFW content. (I mean really, it’s kinda sad. Even twitter has more regularly posted nsfw than Lemmy.)

5. UI and UX are garbage. I’ve had more 503s on Lemmy the past week than Reddit the past 8 years. The new reddit app looks & feels better than any available android app for Lemmy. (and honestly on desktop too)

6. Why ‘move’ ?

If the mods don’t want to moderate the old sub, then pass the torch.

Considering piracy’s focus on decentralization, y’all are oddly supportive of centralizing your content on a Lemmy instance hosted by one guy.

Which brings me to:

7. The person who hosts the Lemmy instance can edit the database directly just like Spez can with Reddit. You’re trading centralized power around admins for centralized power around the server host. So essentially just downgrading to the old forum days… (you know, the stuff Reddit replaced in large part.)

I’m sure this will get downvoted to hell, but these are a few reasons why the Reddit community shouldn’t be killed.