• 10EXP@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    170·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • tal@kbin.social
    111·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      26·
      10 months ago

      IPO goals made it seem piracy days on reddit were numbered, so those with foresight were itching for a new place off reddit and leapt at the opportunity to find a new place.

      • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
        24·
        10 months ago

        Piracy-friendly subreddits are not looked kindly by the advertisers that fund Reddit now. I think you’re right.

      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        Hah they want the piracy community (to help “engagement” etc), until they don’t.

        You’re 100% right and I’m sorry I didn’t continue my russian lessons :-/

        Skolka stoich cofea?

        :-)

  • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
    85·
    10 months ago

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

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    73·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Default_Defect@midwest.social
      21·
      10 months ago

      Personally, I like having more usable versions of things I already own. A certain company’s games play better emulated on my PC day one than after a year of updates on their own console.

    • Zebov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      I’m about 40 and have used them as demos for some time. There are a ton of games I’ve ended up buying that I never would’ve due to piracy. Maybe I’m all alone, but when finances are tight, I QUIT pirating games so I won’t find another I love.

      Also I’m firmly in the “I bought it, so I should own it camp.” I have quite a few games that I’ll buy, but still use the pirated version because it doesn’t need the internet, or need to spend an hour updating every time I want to play.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    65·
    10 months ago

    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

    • Unruffled@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      I reckon it’s probably a good thing we are flying under the radar in the media tbh. Media attention might draw other forms of unwanted attention. It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out over the next year or so though. Those meme communities have a lot of growth potential given their demographic.

  • sprl@lemm.eeEnglish
    55·
    10 months ago

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

  • quadropiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    10 months ago

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

  • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
    30·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    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! :)

  • zoe@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

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