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Reddit /r/piracy in turmoil as a mod caught taking bribes to promote posts (www.reddit.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd recommend ignoring the uninformed or ignorant bait

it doesn't make sense as the fediverse systems here are under an AGPL-3.0 license

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

I'd assume a sponsored post on a Lemmy community would just be a pinned post that a mod got money for

[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

hmm after rereading the initial comment I mean it's not impossible but I'd posit that it's highly unlikely as the majority of us have already experienced the dynamics where doing so would drive our users away to another instance like the initial reddit implosion