/r/Piracy is just a bunch of memes, and this community actively talks about piracy, it’s ethical philosophy and taking control over your media. There are people who pirate everything regardless of circumstances, but for the most part, I’d argue its people who have been burnt by companies whom they trusted.
I disagree that it actually talks about the “ethical philosophy.” Basically either you join the echo chamber saying that there are no ethical problems with piracy, or you’re downvoted to oblivion. The responses are along the lines of “idc, I want free stuff.” That makes the discussion redundant and uninteresting.
Hey there’s long fledged out discussions on the nuances of… how very ethical piracy is
Piracy is good actually; the only people who disagree are squares who will never own capital of their own, and actual capitalist leeches
because the flipside is companies wanting to nickel and dime you to oblivion for a subpar piece of media, or even hardware these days.
We’re talking about whether the community has a nuanced discussion about the ethics of piracy or not. What you said just now is another attempt at a false dichotomy, so if you’re trying to represent the community you’re kind of proving my point.
im presenting you with a simple, common but strong argument for it.
you can choose to engage with it with nuance or, apparently, attack me.
you won’t agree with every set of ideals out there, that doesn’t mean it isnt tought out.
Your argument is not relevant to anything I said. So I don’t want to engage with it because it derails the discussion here, which is not about the ethics of piracy but about the community’s openness to discussing it.
yes it is. you just dont want to have that discussion.
the community will rightfully shun people parroting the copyrights holders arguments and bad faith arguing, because thats not the place to be if you hate piracy.
They can do whatever they want, it’s their community. Just don’t tell me there’s a nuanced discussion going on there.
Yep. I got wrecked trying to discuss the nuanced differences between piracy and theft.
Decided then and there to just block all discussions/communities on the topic. If they can’t leave the wind-tunnel, they can keep it to themselves.
Some people have to jump through a lot of moral hoops to justify piracy instead of accepting there could be any possible bad points about it
Exactly.
Idk if it’s still there, but devs of lemmy mentioned wanting to make a place you could actually talk about piracy. I buy things when I can DRM free, and when I can’t I’m really glad this community exists
/r/piracy is just a bunch of memes
Because otherwise it would get instantly banned. You don’t host piracy communities on social media, it’s well known
There are people who pirate everything regardless of circumstances, but for the most part, I’d argue its people who have been burnt by companies whom they trusted.
hey thats me! 🤗
Gotta be !imageai@sh.itjust.works. The weekly community challenges are really cool and I don’t think you could find a better space to experiment with and learn about AI artwork. The userbase is knowledgeable/skilled on the topic and also has good vibes.
Personally I don’t see that as a good thing. Reddit had a thriving community of active art sharing subrrddits, Lemmy only has a few barely active art coms and instead floods All with ai-generated images.
A) just block the community
B) Lemmy also has active !traditional_art@lemmy.world communities, it just has less activity in general. We can have an infinite amount of communities on this platform, for both topics. It’s not a zero-sum game
Why do you think the existence of the AI image community is hurting the other art communities on Lemmy? I’m subscribed to and enjoy content from both.
It’s not a zero sum game, but there are not an infinite number of eyeballs looking nor is there an infinite supply of content at any given time. If the majority of “art” floating to the top is generated, it will change how people view the platform.
Maybe the AI “art” community being the first to thrive will mean actual artists get a bad first impression and avoid Lemmy. Maybe people do block it and it becomes a problem only visible to those who don’t already “get it” and just block.
There are many reasons why it could hurt the community. How do you fail to understand that?
I agree, it’s one of the things I dislike about the fediverse (I’m on Kbin)
Huh didn’t expect a community I (used to be) am active on.
The Tom Swifty sub has been locked without explanation for a year on reddit. But !tomswifty@midwest.social is thriving!
TIL about Tom Swifty jokes. It’s like a pun on steroids. Brilliant!
Was it locked permanently due to the Reddit API changes perhaps? Or was it before that?
I know some subs did lock indefinitely, but Reddit forcibly reopened some I think.
It was a couple months before that, actually. I wouldn’t talk shit about a community that shut down in protest.
I’m gonna need someone to explain what that is a little more. I’m super confused.
It’s a type of joke where the spoken line relates to the described manner of speaking, usually in a pun, eg.
“Salmon is just the best,” Tom said superficially.
The adverb “superficially” sounds like “super fish”, which describes Tom’s attitude towards salmon.
!ich_iel@feddit.de
Technically, it has an equivalent in r/ich_iel. But that’s a generic German meme sub, while the fediverse version is dominated by half a dozen users making memes about their private life. It has a weird-as-fuck soap opera love story between a cow and ramen noodles, hero worship of a bright yellow superhero fighting against parking offenders, and genuinely interesting insights into the German public train system.The chat ones from -grad and Hexbear are my favourite by far.
(abstract) The overall dev community here. This place has a lot of the extremely capable bleeding edgers, the people capable of changing the world for the better with a couple weeks of thought.
I also edge until i bleed
!stick@sh.itjust.works is a pretty unique community on the Lemmyverse.
Easily Lemmygrad and Hexbear, for the historical material, geopolitical stuff and socialist discussions. They also provide an anti-NATO/Nazi space which is bloody good.
I couldn’t agree more.
Crikey, liberal settlers have been through here. Lookit that responseless score-cratering…
i came here to say this but it looks like an unpopular opinion.
the tankie instances are a breath of fresh air among all the usians thinking that THIS TIME their democrat politician will change everything, i swear.
They said community (the formal term for our equivalent of subreddits), not 3 mostly troll filled instances
everyone i disagree with is a troll!
I don’t disagree with them on about 70% of things though
Lemmit.
Yeah, you can downvote if you want. The point being that Lemmy’s niche communities are kind of dead, because it’s not really big enough to sustain them yet. Lemmit at least provides a bridge so I can see the ones stranded on Reddit.
what’s that
It’s an instance that automatically reposts every post made in certain Reddit subs.
I don’t like it, and blocked the entire instance because I don’t like the whole automatic repost thing, especially when the OP probably won’t even see any responses
It doesn’t post outside of itself, as far as I’m aware, so that was probably redundant.
Probably, but it covers me in the future if they ever add another bot to it
A special instance that mirrors Reddit subs. Just the posts, unfortunately, because I guess all the comments would be harder to scrape.