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.
It’s too tiring going back and forth with these types of Reddit users. I gave up and just chill here
Years ago reddit put aside a cardinal rule of the internet: Don’t feed the trolls.
It was worse off for it from a user perspective. It’s been great for investors though.
I’m right there, or close and getting closer every day. Ever since I removed Reddit from my home screen on my phone the temptation is a lot less me