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

  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

    • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

  • kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 months ago

    The fact that even happened tbh is insane tbh, but I’m so glad that people are now jumping ship tbh esp what the dumb decisions Reddit has made in the past couple of years.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I took a bribe on my Minecraft server once. Although I made them change it from going to me to being a direct donation and keeping it a secret. I also confirmed it with the owner who was basically paying for it out of pocket lol. Good times.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • Praise Idleness@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • Optional@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m not going to reddit can someone explain what it is ? Somebody paid a mod to promote a website ? what posts ? I don’t even know how reddit works exactly. Are promoted posts not allowed or very obvious ? They didn’t disclose ?

  • FloppyFlounder8@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Paid posts are one thing, but that’s just the beginning. What’d be next? Sponsored links on the sub sidebar or megathread? That’ll be a very slippery slope.