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.

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41
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    1 year ago

    I came here to look to see if this topic was covered. I just checked my mod queue and every single post made by my automod OR other users about Lemmy was reported multiple times for “harassment” with 40+ down votes as well. I’ve literally never had a full mod queue that was more than 6 things before and I had 30 or more posts to approve with 3 being actual things. What the fuck.

    • @Nommer
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      101 year ago

      Wouldn’t be surprised at all if it’s reddit themselves reporting and downvoting posts with bots. Spez doesn’t have a clean track record after all.

      • @Donjuanme
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        71 year ago

        No no no, see bridging is only brigading when it goes against the administrations (Reddit admin) desires.