Reddit /r/piracy in turmoil as a mod caught taking bribes to promote posts - eviltoast

All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Thanks. That’s interesting, I didn’t know the mods here were mods there too. I believe people here wouldn’t be letting things fall apart (there is a reason people moved away from Reddit and the quality of content here is proof).

    I was surprised to see those comments implying the megathread was no longer reliable though, I figured it was a stretch but had no idea why would they be thinking that.

    • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      That’s interesting, I didn’t know the mods here were mods there too.

      tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the case cause after reddit’s self-made implosion with the API access debacle, the majority of us migrated to (fediverse instances such as) mastodon and here