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Bandit wrote

If we really want to direct people to alternatives, we'd close down r/piracy before the admins ban it. Then we could put a message on the "this subreddit is private" page listing the alternatives and they'd be linked there forever.

If we let the admins ban it, which they're obviously ramping up to do, they'll control the message and say "this sub was closed for multiple copyright infractions" which is total bull. Better if we control the message so we can direct people to the truth (that reddit sold out to advertisers).

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

reddit sold out to advertisers

You don't know the half of it.

From my What is wrong with reddit? wiki:

Reddit's management then lobbied threats at a subreddit dedicated to exposing bad marketer practices; for making anti-advertising memes.

They literally threatened a sub for making fun of advertisers.

I also remember r/anarchism years ago implemented some CSS that removed ads from r/anarchism and the mods immediately got warned by the admins for it and were forced to remove the code.

Reddit has always been controlled by ad money, it's just amplified lately because they're looking to go public.

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StrongerThanEvil wrote

Reddit has always been controlled by ad money

That's true, and greed doesn't stop there. They have some... concerning investors lately. They applied censorship and other troublesome ethics before , but it won't get any better now with so many fresh millions of $ from one of the largest chinese companies around.

I mean, take a look at Reddit App for example. The ads are nothing compared to the tracking they have there. I'm pretty certain they're selling information to the chinese government (and others).

Also, I have the feeling that every subreddit is getting more and more toxic recently. So much, that I stopped visiting a few of them that I was still lurking from time to time.

For me, Reddit is dead. And good riddance honestly.

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JoeMemo wrote

If you do this, don't link to saidit. I see a lot of people shilling for that site on r/piracy but it's run by a random American teenager using reddit's old source code. It has no real capacity to grow or evolve and it's still completely exposed to US law. There's not even a guarantee he won't slap ads on the site the moment it gets some traffic.

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db0 wrote

People still want to use piracy on reddit. It's not for me to unilateraly force them to use an alternative. In fact, that's more likely to backfire.

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Bandit wrote

I'm not blaming you or asking you to make unilateral moves for a whole sub, in case you thought so.

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