I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it’s “dogshit” and “not going anywhere” get systematically upvoted.

Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like “yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org” 🤦‍♂️

It’s frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that “Lemmy is not ready yet” and that there’s “no viable alternative to Reddit”.

This and the overwhelming number of comments being “against the mod protests” just prompts me to question whether there isn’t some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.

  • @Zebov
    117•1 year ago

    Probably bots. Reddit has been using them for some time, but recently got caught using chat gpt or something similar to argue against the blackouts.

      • GreatWhiteBuffalo41English
        10•1 year ago

        I’ve noticed this. A lot of people seem mad at the users and subs leaving, not so much the dumb CEO

    • Mon0
      22•1 year ago

      The majority aren‘t bots. Most of them are legit no lifers to whom Reddit going down the drain would be a huge blow. I mean you work full time as a cashier for taco bell and you are not really happy with that situation. Some people go to school again, learn a skill… others spend all their time one Reddit stockpiling karma. Those are the people who really hate lemmy and anything that could remotely make Reddit worse, because they are heavily invested in the platform for the wrong reasons.

    • goinroguein10
      18•1 year ago

      Do you have a source for this claim? I’m very interested in reading about it

    • @bloodtide
      17•1 year ago

      Which is fking insane since one of Steve’s excuses for upping API pricing so high is to fight LLM from training on “their” dataset! Fucking LOL

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
        2•1 year ago

        it does make sense as a business strategy, since they probably have plans how to analyze the data themselves and sell that as a service or sell a more curated access than the current api.

        it’s certainly not about protecting the users data, but how to monetize it best.

        I also doubt them to have done the whole chatgpt bots just this week. Providing organic marketing where users are unsure if its just a regular comment of someone super happy with product xy or a bot.

        Shilling for certain products or political views is already sold as a service by quite a few companies. I think reddit just wants to take in that business.