All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.
I honestly see no reason to use Reddit for its Piracy Megathread. Lemmy’s user base is much more friendly, helpful and the Megathread here is the same (if not better) organized than there.
Not only that, I remember there was quite some problems among the mods on Reddit. So I’m not surprised something like this happened. Once there’s a slight fracture, it’ll slowly but steadily get broken into pieces entirely.
I don’t see much decent content on both Piracy and PiratedGames subreddit anyway. Majority is memes, ‘is this safe’ and spam posts about empress.
The megathread is here if anyone is wondering
I mean…Aint our admin also the former main mod of the subreddit?
Yes
The mod u/Furdiburd10 who manually approved and stickied the post has been removed from the mod team. Reddit’s spam filter actually caught it early on and the community helped mass report. They also fully censored comments from yall calling it out.
What a giant loser.
Welcome to Lemmy Reddit pirates, you should have come earlier.
What is a reddit? /s
An LLM database builder.
I tried to find reddit on duckduckgo to answer this quesiton, but I didn’t get any results :(
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That’s some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit’s default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.
The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod’s PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.
Is… Is there some reason not to send that much money via PayPal?
Asking for a friend.
PayPal allow easy reversal if transactions. Their dispute team favour protecting the buyer by far.
That’s an understatement, PayPal will pretty much always side with the buyer no matter how ridiculous and outlandish their claim. I even had one “dispute” where the scammer changed the dispute reason which caused PayPal to ignore what I’d already submitted and close it in their favour by default as “no response”. PayPal is very much pro-scammer, avoid if possible.
It’s been a few years since I’ve had to deal with clients directly, I don’t think I’ll ever miss it.
As a buyer, I’ve had to fight hard to get items returned to scammy sellers.
I only ask because I have some members of my family transfer money between them, and it’s usually a high amount like that.
No problem there
Not…sure why someone downvoted you…
Looks like OP removed their own upvote that gets added by default when posting (probably by accident).
That’s fair.
It’s harder for corruption and lawyers to target multiple instances rather than one centralized location
Love the recruiting that you all are doing in there.
Let no crisis go to waste :D
one person’s footgun is another’s opportunity lol
- Microsoft Crowdstrike and Linux
- Unity and Godot
Crowdstrike is not owned or in any way in a business relationship with Microsoft, offers the software that caused the issue for Mac and Linux as well, and in fact caused similar issues on specific Linux Distros a few months before this recent cock up.
The issue only effected Windows OS machines that were running the Crowdstrike Falcon endpoint protection software, which runs at ring 0, kernel level. This presents the same potential for causing boot loops in all OSes due to the nature of running software that deep into the guts of things. The only caveat is that some Linux Distros have separation preventing things from running at that low level, and apparently so does Mac OS.
The update was not pushed out through Microsoft, as many are incorrectly repeating. It was a malware definitions update which was downloaded automatically by the Falcon software itself, without any configuration options available for admins to stage and do partial rollouts for testing.
Also, I significantly doubt that any company is going to do a complete overhaul of its IT architecture to switch over to a new OS for end user devices, when the simplest solution is to just switch to a different endpoint protection software. I’ve worked half a decade in an enterprise architecture type position, that simply isn’t how things work in this world.
Thanks for linking the Reddit thread. I tried to do my part to spread the word. The more people talk about Lemmy on Reddit, the more people users will switch.
Of course getting people over from reddit is nice, but honestly the exact same thing can happen here as well. We’ll always depend on the integrity of the people with mod status.
Man, what a joke Reddit has become after the 3rd party exodus, seems like most good subs went to shit.
Luckily this lead us to Lemmy and the Fediverse, which – in my opinion – is more akin to Aaron Swartz’s original vision.
He would’ve had a Lemmy instance running secretly in a server closet somewhere on the MIT campus.
IMO this has nothing to do with the 3rd party stuff, stupid mods getting scammed for $800 has nothing to do with Reddit decisions
Well if all the good mods leave and you only have the bad ones left or people who come in just to profit, you get this.
Oh that’s really transparently a scam
Out of curiosity, is our megathread the same as theirs? If so, it might be time to make our own independently of theirs.
So we aren’t using an unauthorised copy?
How baller would it be to pirate a piracy megathread
Disappointing tgat we arent when you put it that way
Check the wiki. We already have our own
With blackjack and hookers?
I just now noticed it says tumoil instead of turmoil
Nah OP pulled an edit
Shit site has gone to shit. Shocker.
I thought I wasn’t gonna give a shit about this, but it was quite enjoyable. Too bad, so sad! Looks like that guy’s discord is now well known for the wrong reasons…
Least corrupt reddit mod
I read that the (banned) member joined reddit a short time ago, I wonder how he became a mod
sucked cock
