Likely a combination of the community having more tech savvy individuals + realising Reddit would fuck over r/Piracy eventually, making more of them follow dbzer0 here when they were overthrown.

My understanding is that there had been an ongoing concern on /r/piracy that they would get shut down at some point, that this had been a concern in the past, and so the other stuff like the API restrictions and the rest of the spez drama was kind of just adding to the big factor pushing people away -- that the community could vanish at any time.

The lead mod on /r/piracy also set up a dedicated instance -- there was definite commitment -- made it clear that he was making the move, and was demodded on /r/piracy, so there were factors creating more inertia.

Those are all factors that did not generally exist for other communities.

Reddit desperately wants its piracy community back, not knowing that the ship has sailed arr

Keep in mind that Lemmy.world communities are not listed due to crawling issues.

Because people here are tired of being exploited by corps I would assume.

Also it's a teenage thing. No money but wants to play all the latest games. :)

I used to download every single game when I was a kid.

That's kinda strange, not gonna lie. I was expecting a lot more subs in the meme communities etc.

I do find it interesting that when lemmy instances are mentioned, lemmy.dbzer0.com is mentioned as an afterthought, if at all :D

🏴‍☠️ Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free. You are a pirate! 🏴‍☠️

Although good for the active community, I don’t feel like it’s a great advertisement of lemmy for the wider public

Ohhh that's a reason for the mainstream news agencies to make up sensational headlines and demonize the fediverse

lemmy.cfd

I own this domain and don't have anything better to use it for, so it's a shorter link to the above mentioned community indexer.

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

Hell ya dbzer0 represent!! ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)

I guess Lemmy users probably also have high sympathies for digital piracy, opposing copyright is very wide spread within the open source community but there are a lot of factors at play here and I'm glad that's the case because I only started to really use it on Lemmy! :)

german instances are stable overall, so they can afford the high community user count

This is the way

Why is there no lemmy.world community at all? I'm pretty sure it has a lot of big communities

As soon as reddit started looking into the money /r piracy's days were numbered.