So, the practice of using bots/multiple accounts by a corporate interest to change the sentiment/narrative in an online forum has a history that goes all the way back to 2005.
If they were doing that in 2005, I can’t imagine what they are capable of now, or how widespread these types of practices are.
What it comes down to, is we all have to work together and do our part, if we want to see piracy keep going. It is a living, breathing, group effort. We cannot rely on a few small groups of people to do all the work, like with RARBG, or piracy will die.
Seed your torrents long. Upload fresh content to as many trackers/places as possible. Don’t just take. Give to your shipmates too. Give back to the communities.
It is up to you (and me and everyone) to do uploading, sharing, and keeping piracy living. You must give back or piracy dies. We cannot keep expecting others to do everything. If we all give a little, piracy lasts forever and can never die. Carry the torch. When the old guys retire or pass on (yes old pirates literally die), then it is your turn to fulfill the giving to the young pirates. Teach. Seed. Upload. Give. And there’s always enough to go around. 🦜🏴☠️
Yes THANK you! Idk why, I could not find it!
I mean with seedboxes as low as $5 a month, seeding is abundant in my mind. It just takes a couple of clicks to set up a torrent to seed. Everyone could easily seed 2:1 if they wanted to. And then delete and free up space.
Seeding requirements are tough and I know private is not the way for everyone.
But seeding does help the community and can be done with minimal effort if you are crafty about it and have the space with a computer you leave on 24/7, or even easier, a seedbox. Just freelech a few hundred gigabytes of the most popular stuff, let it seed for a few weeks, and when you come back, you’ll have tons of upload credit to download stuff.
Rinse and repeat each month. Unlimited free stuff glitch, lol. Except it’s not a glitch, just not too hard to do, even encouraged. After doing this a few times you will have tons of free credit with very little effort on your part.
Once you have the credit, delete the popular torrents to free up space (if you don’t want them) and grab new freeleaches for more credit.
Federated means separated. There isn’t one main big Lemmy like one main big reddit. It’s a bunch of little Lemmys, like a bunch of little islands. Each little island is a server. You sign up for each server like it’s its own individual forum/site. So like, you don’t sign up for an entire platform (all of Lemmy), you sign up for one forum/sublemmy.
It works this way on purpose. It is a good thing. Reddit was on GIANT monstrosity, and yes that is convenient. But it was also convenient for one giant corporation to censor, cheat people, and do whatever they want. Is Lemmy slightly less convenient? Yes. It’s a few extra clicks. You have to sign up for different servers. But for those few extra clicks, you gain huge freedom and no one corporation controls the whole thing. Entirely worth it, in my mind, to spend another minute or two. These communities are far too valuable to humanity for me to be stingy about convenience. With convenience, comes loss of freedom and personal power. If we don’t do the work, a corporation will do all the work for us and then they’ll also take whatever they want from us because of that convenience. They unfortunately sometimes prey on people who want the easiest way possible to do things.
That’s the spirit buccaneer. There’s always endless loot to go around and spirit to go with it.
What truthfully strikes me as odd is that there are 10s of thousands of us mateys out here and no one considers the fact that a few of us are no doubt capable of starting our own group.
Nothing is permanent in this world. Every site/tracker/etc will eventually go down, others will come up. We live in a time where computer/development knowledge is hugely available on the internet. Oh also…you can pirate that knowledge, friends 😀 🦜.
I guess what I’m saying is…we have the technology. More than ever. UI/UX, web hosting, and development knowledge is more affordable/available than ever. Are you young? Don’t have a job/hate your job? Have some applicable tech skills? Want to make money and quit the 9-5 (yes there’s actually a shit ton of money in it, either via ads or other methods, people who run groups can live off of it very well in many cases). Well there you go. Get together and start it up. No easy task to reach RARBG’s size on day one but you start small and things grow. Build your empire.
Now, I actually like my job. But again, there’s in all, tens of millions of people out there globally who are pirates and tend to be nerdy. You’re telling me something better won’t come up? Someone will make it. Could be you. Just depends: do you have a vision, do you want the money, are you inspired to share knowledge/content with others and carry the torch of piracy out across the high seas?
My question isn’t “What will I do now?”. Piracy sites have continued and continued over time. My question is, what’s coming next?
I agree with the phenomena at play, but have to say that conservatism/liberalism (not the political kind) is not a black and white characteristic. It is much more nuanced than that. A person can be entirely conservative in one ideological area of their life, and entirely liberal in another. Eg. (this example may be using the political sense just for illustration) Someone may be entirely fiscally conservative with their money, but entirely socially liberal with their social mores (very open-minded sexually, etc). Or vise-versa, or any other combination thereof.
The way that we as humans tend to group people into black and white, dualistic groups is not only destructive to the human race, it’s inaccurate. Humans are not dualistic, black and white beings. Everyone’s characteristics and beliefs are a smattering of many different aspects, all presenting/leaning in conservative or liberal, one way or the other. But very few people fit into the category where everything they believe is conservative, or liberal. Most people are a complex combination. Trying to oversimplify it into two categories is a creation of political and media narratives that keeps people divided and powerless to greater interests, and hating each other. Humans are much more complex than that. We all have many liberal and conservative aspects, masculine and feminine aspects, etc.
Of course, every four years in November, they use the best tactics they can through our screens to make sure we fully pledge our loyalty to one of those two categories.