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Reddit taking down multiple of my piracy related posts (www.reddit.com)

submitted 4 days ago by nullptr@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I posted an updated guide on r/Adobe Zii a bit ago. It got taken down last week and I re-posted it here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43935446 Super grateful that this community exists. I posted to r/Adobe Zii that my guide was taken down and warning that it looks like reddit is cracking down on piracy (I am guessing an Adobe spokesperson is abusing reddit's copyright reporting system). Now today reddit emails me saying that I received another copyright warning for posting that my other post was removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeZii/comments/1kioy3i/reddit_took_down_my_adobe_zii_guide/

I decide hey lets try and appeal as there was not any copyrighted material in my post about my guide being removed. Turns out they want my full name, address, and other identifying info to send to the copyright complainant. Not doing that.

Just disappointed as I've actively used reddit for years and love all the communities on this place. Seems like its slowly going down hill. Guess I should have seen that coming with the whole API shenanigans last year.

TL;DR reddit sucks and it does not appear any way to appeal without giving Adobe my info

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[-] kotobuki09@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Not surprising. I almost didn't learn anything new about piracy from it anymore.

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[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago

I'm sure the majority of reddit users either don't know or don't care about the events of two summers ago. And with reddit cracking down on more and more content...they may not even know about all of the stuff reddit is cracking down on. How long until a crackdown on posts about reddit cracking down?

[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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[-] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And this is why platforms that only grow for the sake of growing is a bad thing. In order to grow unbounded, you have to cater for the kinds of users that you described - no self-respect and no awareness of the platform that they're using. The kinds of people that will happily let themselves be abused by technocrats like Mark Zuckerberg or whatever Reddit's CEO is.

Is that the kind of average user that we want on Lemmy? Hell no! If that means that we can never have more than 1 million monthly users, then so be it. Quality over quantity. Reddit has plenty of quantity, but garbage-tier quality.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago

Yep. You have to at least vaguely be engaged in the politics of the internet (not to be confused with politics on the internet) to use these smaller platforms at all.

The average social media user just doesn't care. They want things to work from their perspective, and it doesn't matter how much data they give up, or privacy they lose, or any other thing that might be a negative to us that engage in the internet outside of "apps".

IMO, this is a pro and not a con of federated social media, and means that your discussions will be smarter on average. Sometimes, I feel sad that the days of free (as in freedom) internet is seemingly gone, before I remember that you just have to look a little deeper, and it's definitely still there.

[-] nullptr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 days ago

So true... honestly at this point I hope it just gets worse so people jump ship to lemmy. Might be hopeful thinking that people will actually switch. But having a company control public discourse always seems to end badly. Not looking at you twitter.

[-] Trihilis@ani.social 7 points 4 days ago

Sadly I think most will just switch to bluesky so they can see the next disaster of enshittification unfold.

Also it doesn't help most celebrities moved to bluesky as well. Then there is the fact you have to choose an instance on lemmy which scares most people away.

I hope lemmy gets traction...

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

People love corporations...for some reason

[-] dark_phoenix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

They provide easier shit so that people don't have to think. In a way people prefer spoon feeding over thinking for themselves

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[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

im there because there's a lot of niche communities that just dont exist here, or have any active users.

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[-] Grostleton@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Discord is already prepping for an IPO so why bother putting any energy into moving off Reddit, finding, and getting involved with communities on there when it's going to be yet another shit show in fairly short order?

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[-] Grostleton@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Discord is now run by the former vice chairman of Blizzard. That, combined with it being only "not as far along" in the enshittification process actually makes the idea of putting time and energy into finding a niche community that I can jive with on Discord less appealing than simply sticking it out with Reddit and it's known variables until something substantial forms on Lemmy or some other platform that hasn't begun severely degrading due to corporate ownership.

That's my personal opinion anyway.

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

I think once Lemmy hits about a million active users, I'm fully ready to switch over.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 31 points 3 days ago

...Then stop posting on Reddit? I thought the whole point of us moving here was to get out of the control of Reddit and their shareholders/corporate overlords

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lemmy is the safe island everyone on Reddit knows they can go if it gets entirely unusable.

But, Lemmy is extremely political with fuckall else outside of reposted memes and selfhosting nerds, so we don't really fit the bill for Reddit's normies until they're all ready to come aboard, not that they ever will.

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Skill issue.

And yet, post the information on Lemmy anyway. The normies will either find it when someone on Reddit comments that they saw it on Lemmy ("talking about X" is not copyrightable), or they'll find it on Google when it starts indexing Lemmy.

But, Lemmy is extremely political with fuckall else outside of reposted memes

Excuse me we have original memes here! Also cat pictures.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

You can open up your own Lemmy instance and ban politics from it.

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 7 points 3 days ago

I don't personally have a problem with it, and without it, there wouldn't be much going on here.

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

and without it, there wouldn’t be much going on here

We could talk about Linux!

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

Me either.

[-] dark_phoenix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

True, I don't think a lot of people I interact with on Reddit will ever move to Lemmy.
But I guess it's okay, because I am getting the stuff which Reddit won't allow so it would be like a cool shadow community.

By the way, how do you think censorship work on Lemmy? I don't have any idea if they can block stuff, like a lot of users are on Lemm.me or Lemmy.world so there mods can control a lot of posts I guess

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 days ago

Servers can censors you which but generally clown mods in big communities do it.

It doesn't really matter since getting banned by some shiti community for content censorship, just move to another place community.

This is the key benefit of federation, no single actor can cut another person from expressing itself on fedi, just their little fiefdom

[-] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 3 days ago

Slowly going downhill?

I think it's in freefall (but what would I know I don't go there anymore)

[-] ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 4 days ago

Nah just bring your posts here! Quit adding to that dumpster fire. The love and piracy is strong here.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 3 days ago

This is the way, use reddit for info but never feed the parasite any content.

All content should be posted on fedi to seed the future of social media imho

[-] Naich@lemmings.world 47 points 4 days ago

Fuck Reddit. It's only going to get worse.

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago

Haven’t been back since the API and third party app thing, and it’s amazing how much crap I was scrolling through just because it was there. Lemmy’s been great. It was really slow in the beginning, two years ago, but it continues to get progressively better. Love to see it.

Fuck spez.

[-] Trihilis@ani.social 6 points 4 days ago

I dont get why people visit it anymore. The censorship, gatekeeping and botposting is just absolutely bonkers.

Like okay, maybe if you only watch memes and cat pictures I can kinda understand. But every single sub I've been in had an idiotic amount of gatekeeping. Just mentioning grapheneos in some subs could get you banned. Just mentioning luigi mangione could get you banned. Oh your post is falsely flagged as inappropriate? Banned, and good luck trying to appeal.

It's become an absolute dystopian shithole. Lemmy isn't perfect but at least if the host of your instance goes insane you can leave for another. And if you don't like what you see you can choose to block it.

[-] w00t@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You guys post on Reddit?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago

Feels like a trap. “Yes, please voluntarily offer your personal information to our legal department.”

[-] nullptr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago

Ikr! That is what my thought was. I always prefer to be anonymous online and giving them all my personal info seems like a very bad idea.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 days ago

When Reddit went public it was scooped up by hedgies and other nefarious actors. Slowly but surely it is changing for the worse. I just got booted from Reddit on a 9 year account (as an added bonus they nuked my other 2 accounts as well even though no posts near time of nukage) for pretty tame (compared to other stuff I have seen) stuff. I predict that Reddit will be indistinguishable from truth social within 5 years or less.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 points 3 days ago

I (15 year old account) got banned not too long ago for replying to a person using information publicly listed in their reddit profile. Rule 3, aka doxxing. Idk, seemed overkill to me, what else is the point of sharing anything in ones profile if mentioning it is bannable.

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago

I experienced similar as a paying customer there.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 days ago

In today's economy paying that does NOT mean shit, it ain't like you get any rights... Really paying is a mark of a being a sucker in a parasite's eyes.

I still can't tell how we ended up here but I am guessing they dont care for the customer, just for its data.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago

All piracy, hacking and cracking communities should be on Lemmy. All NSFW communities should move to LemmyNSFW. Investors won't be happy until that site is scrubbed clean.