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

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[-] kresten@feddit.dk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can someone loop me in. Did reddit admins really do this?

Edit: wording

[-] Evono@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

they forced Multiple subs open like r/steam , r/pics but they opened in a funny way and more.

Some of the Reddit jannitors simply opened back up as soon as they got threatened to loose their unpaid Janitor role.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit built their whole business on unpaid janitors. That's the thanks people get for working free. Anyway they just keep doubling down, has to be a conspiracy.

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

This is my first time linking to Lemmy from Lemmy. Hopefully, that works.

Edit: Cool. old.reddit link syntax works, too.

TL;DR: They demodded OP, the founder (I think?), of /r/piracy to force them to reopen. This shows that Reddit thinks it's very important for users to have access to piracy information and a place to discuss piracy on the platform.

This is tacit support for posting piracy on Reddit, and, really, the only reason not to list direct link to pirated content is now gone since the threat of taking the sub private is what "we" want anyway. I suppose you could also get your account banned from Reddit, too.

I'm not a lawyer, but I wonder about legal challenges this opens Reddit to. It would be amazing if Disney now sued Reddit for encouraging piracy of their content. You can definitely trust Disney to be lawsuit happy assholes, right? I'd get a lot of shadenfreud from that.

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