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.
They ask you to write a few sentences to prove you’re not a bot / troll. I wouldn’t consider that a lot of effort personally.
Im honestly a bit confused why everyone is hating on beehaw though, isn’t the whole point of this distributed system is that we can control what we want and don’t want to see? There’s no one person controlling anything, so just move somewhere that’s more what you’re looking for or even start your own instance.