My /r/piracy troll post just hit reddit frontpage! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I'm also going viral on mastodon. WTF is going on?! :D

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[-] NekoRogue@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bootlicking on that post (in a PIRACY sub nonetheless) is wild. Lots of "you don't understand, Reddit is a COMPANY! 😭" I've peeked in on Reddit a bit and I've been seeing those kinds of "won't somebody think of the shaaaareholdersss and adminss" comments on a few posts related to the protest. Things like this insightful little nugget:

"Seems all the reddit hate is based solely on reddit doing something similar to twitter, and I'm supposed to be upset cause "Elon man bad"? Tons of APIs cost money to use... build your own platform that freely allows everyone to scrape all "your" content, lead by example please..."

I wonder how many of those are Reddit employees and bots? They can't all be u/spez alts, can they?

Oh and this is fun too, did you know that we're all LiTeRaLlY extremists over here?

" Lemmy is very far-left. They are literally extremists, I'll not be part of that shit."

Guess Reddit is going to be taken over by alt-right trolls too.

Edit: Still figuring out how the formatting works over here.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess Reddit is going to be taken over by alt-right trolls too.

Haha, that worked for Fox News in the USA.

Lots of “you don’t understand, Reddit is a COMPANY!

That's the problem, corporate interest. We'd all be better served by a community open source platform like the Fediverse, politics aside.

[-] arthur@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

About the politics, that's worth reading from the developers:

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored. If you want to know the truth then read the following pages (both from 2021):

History of Lemmy

What is lemmy.ml

As you can see we are not a faceless corporation that is accomodating to everyone. We are individuals with our own opinions. If you disagree with these, it is no problem! You can still freely use the Lemmy software on different instances. If you host your own instance, we have no control over it at all and are unable to censor what users say. For more details read the documentation on censorship resistance. In practice, the instance list already contains various instances whose content would be banned from lemmy.ml immediately.

Source: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout