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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 258 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Piracy and Star Trek communities had a lot more success migrating their communities over to lemmy compared to other communities. Not 100% success as many opposed to the migration (I remember seeing big drama on r/piracy back then, and lesser drama on r/startrek), but a good chuck of them was successfully migrating to lemmy.

Edit: wait, I didn't realized it's @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com himself that made this post. Man, I don't know how you're able keep going with encouraging redditors to migrate to lemmy with how redditors that stay on r/piracy was treating you. I say good riddance! Your hard work paid off!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 214 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well I'm not really on reddit anymore, so that helps 😁

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bro, this community rocks, I didn't ditch Reddit completely but god all the time I head to /r/piracy are the same repeated memes all over again, here we have actual discussion.

As /r/piracy was one of my favorite subreddits, if not the favorite I always was scared Reddit would vanish it... Well not anymore, I am glad Lemmy happened so we have this awesome community, possibly forever.

BTW my lemm.ee account was created due to my prior lemmy.world blocking this community, I know they backtracked that decision, but I am so comfortable here that I didn't even bother to go back.

[–] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol, for me it was similar, I had a few things I didn't like about lemm.ee so I ditched my account there and went here by accident (well just by searchimg and it fulfilling all my needs and a ton more things), ended up liking this instance a ton so it became my daily driver

[–] vsh@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How is it different from lemmee? Legit question, I hate my instance and server admin.

[–] ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Well first they support file uploads, second I feel like everyone I ever met from this instance was nice to everyone (sure that can be because it's smaller but it also has less controversies (i.e. what the dude I was replying to, the lemmy.world blocking us) due to the overall nature of this instance)

Went here for the file uploads, stayed for the community, that's what I can personally say

I'd suggest the switch for you

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

What exactly is the issue with our admins? If you feel you've received some unjustified moderation, feel free to contact me and I can have a look.

[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

💯 👑 Here @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you dropped this

[–] Blaze@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for your work

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago

He is the best , thank you all you do Db0

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How were redditors treating them? Just being obnoxious and refusing to change?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

My memory is hazy, but during the subreddit protest, he was somehow removed from moderator list (did the admins got involved?), and the sub reopened shortly after. From then on, any thread about migration to Lemmy is full of people roasting each other. It was awful. No idea why those who remains were so vehemently opposed to migration of a piracy community. It's not like you can openly discuss piracy stuff on Reddit without risking removal by the admins.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes, the admins removed me without warning then re-arranged the mod team

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 months ago

Classic Reddit.

Thank you for everything here, this is a fantastic instance.

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To what level is this community still affiliated with the subreddit?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same mods. I don't particularly hang out in reddit anymore, but @sunbrothersco@lemmy.dbzer0.com is still doing unpaid volunteering for spez :P

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

is still doing unpaid volunteering for spez :P

Spez is going to pay back, don't you know about Reddit karma turning into real gold? /s

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Not to sound too tinfoil-hatty, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that was sock puppet accounts. When you don’t want people to unify and leave, just start a flame war!

[–] lud@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did redditors treat him? I was subscribed to the sub and I have no idea who db0 is. I recently learned that db0 owns the lemmy.dbzer0.com instance but I don't know anything beyond that.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So what?

He was a mod and then he wasn't. Why does it matter? Whas he a very active and liked mod or something? And reddit did that not redditors.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's unprecedented at the time because he was the top mod so the only one that can remove him was Reddit admins, and they did. r/piracy fell into a complete chaos shortly after that, lots of awful stuff so I didn't stay long to see how it went.