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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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I never found /r/Piracy to be useful for anything other than making memes about piracy. There's very little actual information on how to pirate.
After one day in on Kbin, I found this handy little breakdown, which provided me with more resources than I'd ever seen listed on Reddit during my entire time there.
This is a prime example of the slow heat death of Reddit - now that they've forced people to start looking at other alternatives to their communities, they're beginning to realize how restricted and frivolous most of Reddit has become, and what a poor information resource it actually is. When information is presented and moderated as entertainment, it's quality invariably suffers. While it may be a bit to early to tell, it feels like Reddit's failures are instigating an internet Renaissance in the federated space, which has the openness and freedom to allow that kind of a movement to grow.
On Reddit, like my link above, it would be removed for violating the TOS.
Well if you never found useful information on /r/Piracy than thats on you because the link you shared is literaly a copy of the Wiki/Megathread from /r/Piracy.
I feel like we need to start archiving the wikis and other informative posts from /r/trackers
I personally prefer Firefox + NoScript for blocking malware and malvertising. Couple that with adding a fuckload of blocks on your OS's etc/hosts file (System32/drivers/etc/hosts for windows) and you're golden for perusing perilous waters
Also, yandex is the only search engine that i've noticed that does NOT block or censor pirate sites. Everything else: google, brave, duckduckgo, startpage, etc, they all block stuff they so much suspect might harbor pirated content.