This feels like a weird conspiracy theory.

  • Skelectus@suppo.fiEnglish
    47·
    2 years ago

    I’m sure they have their eyes peeled at a growing competitor, but is there anything weird or creepy about this?

    • NateNate60English
      4·
      2 years ago

      Spying on your competitors is as old as commerce itself

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    All the reddit posts smack of a toxic environment. It’s like breaking up with a bad ex. In your case, you’re worried you’re going to see them somewhere, in a city full of 3 million people.

  • webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    I am gonna have a big sarcastic shocked Pikachu face when we discoverer reddit made a large chunk of all those bot accounts just to data harvest and influence lemmy.

    I wouldn’t even call reddit spying on lemmy a conspiracy, just a natural part of competition in business.

      • webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Ngl i thought OPs username was a link to proof of conspiracy, but i am trying a new app (Memmy) and it has abug that all profile links lead to my own profile.

        For a second i was super confused thinking he really somehow thought i was a spying reddit mod.

    • eric5949@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think it was reddit, I think it was meta. Don’t want to join our fedimetaverse? Ok, good thing we seeded all your instances with bots that will take you down from their inside before you said no :)

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Spez is that you?

    ^deleted other comment because I meant to make a top level one^ (I don’t know how superscript works here)

  • HiddenLayer5English
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’d honestly be surprised if they weren’t. Getting dirt on your competitors is literally one of the pillars of business.

  • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    If they’re as toxic as they seem, then just live your best life. We now have a jealous audience that’s obsessed with us. They’ll eventually get upset at how pathetic they are, get bored, and find another victim to abuse.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    They’re way, wwaay, waaaaaaaaaayyy too busy for that right now. lol Otherwise they probably would be, at least a little bit.

    Just standard keeping an eye on a competitor. Not doing that would be very foolish. Not that he’s a smart guy or anything, but “watch your competitors” is pretty basic stuff.