this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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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" πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

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.

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[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's too tiring going back and forth with these types of Reddit users. I gave up and just chill here

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My two cents: good! Let the shitty people stay on reddit. I'm loving the respectful communities here on lemmy, and don't really want those clowns coming over and messing it up for us.

[–] LostCause@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

As long as they do it on Reddit I really donβ€˜t care anymore. Probably with the IPO Reddit will run all sorts of "opinion forming" bots and ban dissidents and so on to make sure they seem like they got the community behind them.

I just hope they leave us alone here and mostly anti-spez people come to form new communities here.

[–] Jon-H558@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I went to have a look back in United Kingdom sub and seemed even more right wing and.thw think-tank bots paid posts than normal.

[–] resketreke@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It was a matter of time. They'll give us a stupid name to refer to us from now on soon enough too.

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[–] DragonB2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It wouldn't surprise me, a lot of people don't care or just aren't interested in change.

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[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Neoliberals and saying "there is no alternative", name a more iconic duo

[–] ViktorShahter@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Spam-bots and strange links.

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[–] Liempong_pagong@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Let them stay there then. We can't force people to join us here. If they choose to believe those kind of brigading comments then they do not have the level of critical thinking to become a meaningful contributor to any site. Those who wanted to move have already moved. Those remaining there are those who chose to ignore the issue, or support reddit.

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's good that this type of comments are being left there and not here.
Also I don't think is a good idea that an user that's looking for reddit 2 comes to lemmy or kbin just to shit on it cause is not reddit 2.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I just deleted all my posts, comments and my account on Reddit. No need to get frustrated over people who wants to be a part of that shit show. Also you can't be sure that they are real people and not paid trolls to discourage people. At this point anything is possible with Reddit.

[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't noticed.

However, something I have noticed about people is that they justify their behaviour.

So if they buy a Toyota and Dad has a Nissan, he'll ask them why they didn't buy a Nissan... If they buy a Nissan and Dad has a Toyota, they'll similarly be able to fight for their corner.

What people don't do is to buy a Nissan and say 'sure, I bought the dogshit car because I'm stupid'.

Something that's true is that Reddit aggregated a lot of behaviour on internet, and so it's obviously true that Lemmy cannot compete with that - not even close. For many use-cases, there are no viable alternatives.

The best thing that will come of this is that people become aware that they have alternatives to Youtube/Google, Reddit, Facebook, Chrome etc.

People need to work to build an independent internet and not allow this shit to happen.

They need to stop signing TOS agreements that they can't even read through or comprehend.

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