cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/715287
Guess where? Unironically r/Save3rdPartyApps
The Reddit search for Lemmy also gives these privacy copy-pasta as top results when searching for Lemmy. I’m still betting that Reddit employees are involved in boosting these posts.
I know it’s anecdotal (and late to this post), but I went back lurking my own profile today, and one of the arguments I had with someone regarding the API changes, and the commenter I was arguing with had about 1k more upvotes now more than 2 weeks later. It was in the middle of a conversation thread and none of the other comments in the whole post had anywhere close to that many votes.
I wouldn’t generally consider myself as someone who would suspect brigading (and honestly, i’m cool with people who dissagree with me), but I can’t think of any other reason why that comment had so many upvotes so long after the conversation took place.
I hope that site crashes and burns and I hope those VC’s loose their shirts on their IPO.
I think it’s very likely ziq’s (raddle.me admin and also postmill dev?) doing because he had a feud with Lemmy’s devs 3 years ago and to this day he still keeps posting on his platform about Lemmy. Mfer is likely mad because his platform never took off and Reddit refugees preferred Lemmy and kbin. Won’t surprise me if he also uses his platform to organise that anti-Lemmy brigading on Reddit.