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.
Are the reports of warnings for posting Lemmy links true?
Haven’t encountered any so far, mostly just getting systematically downvoted for mentioning Lemmy and then getting attacked by trolls like the one I mentioned, who without surprise always get upvoted.
When I link to lemmy I get comments like “what are you still doing here then?” Or “if it needs a get started page then it’s too complicated” Honestly the pessimism at reddit is very high, most seem to think that doing anything is pointless.