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https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/14knc6t/got_r4d_for_pirating_someone_elses_john_oliver_so/

Pirates want to stay on Reddit? This is the last group I had expected to have such a reaction, but here we are. Yes, the mod could have worded it better, but these people actually want to stick around on Reddit.

I personally find Lemmy to be a perfectly viable alternative to Reddit for such subs. I wonder about the reasons why these people still don't want to move.

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[–] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Don't even need to do that. Just need to point to what happened to /r/megalinks

https://web.archive.org/web/20190318150116/https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/avymfq/rmegalinks_subreddit_was_banned_again/

Looked through the archive from 2019 /u/qefbuo said

Personally I think we should move to a decentralized network like Diaspora, anywhere we gather that's centralized is on borrowed time.

Or what more recently happened with r/newyuzupiracy

https://kotaku.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-reddit-piracy-banned-yuzu-1850547515

When reddit decides a ban hammer is going to strike there is no warning.

[–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The screenshot in that kotaku article contains the full base64 for the TOTK links as well as the sidebar that explains that they're base64 encoded. Brilliant

[–] DreamySweet@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's probably on purpose. Kotaku encourages pirating Nintendo games. That's part of why Nintendo blacklisted them.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I didn't Kotaku was based. That's pretty awesome

[–] Never_Sm1le@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

So this is why ToTK posts suddenly disappear from my reddit feed.