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Reddit /r/piracy in turmoil as a mod caught taking bribes to promote posts (www.reddit.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 77 points 3 months ago

Thanks. That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too. I believe people here wouldn't be letting things fall apart (there is a reason people moved away from Reddit and the quality of content here is proof).

I was surprised to see those comments implying the megathread was no longer reliable though, I figured it was a stretch but had no idea why would they be thinking that.

[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 26 points 3 months ago

That's interesting, I didn't know the mods here were mods there too.

tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case cause after reddit's self-made implosion with the API access debacle, the majority of us migrated to (fediverse instances such as) mastodon and here