The idea of the protest is to either forcibly reduce user interaction/retention on the site or raise awareness of the problems that the API changes will raise, spamming John Oliver in pirate clothing won't effectively achieve either.
I like the idea of r/theyknew which forces every post to have an image saying that reddit is killing 3rd party apps. But even that would be better in bigger subreddits which constantly gets r/all coverage.
The way r/piracy is "protesting", it's better to open away, it's not like Reddit wants copyright circumvention to be discussed in their website.
The protesting should go on, but it’s 1.7k against 3.1k who want to open fully if I remember corrently.I bit the bullet and went into the poll comments as well. Clown comment section ~ 95%. I am sad and disgusted. I’m happy they are over there and not here. Ironically it convinced me to never step foot back in there.
That's the thing, all the people who are against the changes left Reddit so logically there's progressively less pro protest users and the ones left don't care about it and want to get back to normal.
We have a limited ability to freely discuss piracy on mainstream social media, which Reddit now regrettably is. IMO piracy communities can probably only exist in decentralized social media anymore.
Well, the sub had gone downhill recently anyway - endless memes or posts about 'what is seeding' 'what is a vpn' 'what is plex' or just idiots who got an ISP notice and think it means they are going to jail.
thanks for making people aware of this. i’d already deleted my reddit account in 2021 or so; libreddit was my only interaction with reddit for more than a year even before I came to lemmy, so I don’t know if i’m even considered a “reddit refugee”, ha.
it always surprises me how few people know about libreddit and teddit (its old reddit looking counterpart) even in places such as hwre
libreddit was my only interaction with reddit for more than a year even before I came to lemmy, so I don't know if i'm even considered a "reddit refugee", ha.
I think people on r/piracy need to see the writing on the wall. Reddit is getting rid of 3rd party clients, is obviously not happy with large subs swapping to NSFW content and is trying to push for things to be as advertiser friendly as possible
At some point they're going to go after piracy subs more aggressively which is probably why it's better to make the switch earlier rather than later
I see a lot of comments there saying when that happens "they'll just make a new sub" missing the fact once Reddit starts banning piracy users/subs the new ones that spring up in its place will only last a week or two before being banned again
At this point I no longer care. I yet haven’t uninstalled Apollo and Boost out of respect for the developers but haven’t used them in 3 weeks. Come the 30th I will uninstall them and that is it. I will continue tu use Reddit as a search clutch while it works but will only get my fix of news either here or via rss feed as I used to do prior to Reddit.
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