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.
Dunno if you were around then, but people on Digg acted the same way toward Reddit before Digg crashed.
If we stay on this platform and continue to grow and create content, then when Reddit again does something to annoy its years (they probably will), we can be here to take advantage.
The downside is that every great growth in users will affect the platform/site culture, not always for the better. It depends on the users and the size of the migration.
I also migrated from digg to reddit. I think it’s funny that people complain “there’s not good alternative to reddit”. When the great digg exodus was happening reddit was not a “good alternative” either, but it still happened that folks jumped ship for a community that was ready to put its users first.
Anybody who’d not going to move until the alternative is perfect is better off staying on
diggreddit.Meanwhile we get everyone who doesn’t fall for propaganda, is willing to try and evaluate the evidence for themselves. It’s win/win really unless your community is rather niche.