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.
Well as long as people are talking about Lemmy, that’s good for us. Any publicity is good publicity.
Kind of. I’m glad that I’m not seeing quite so much of “they’re all a bunch of tankies over there”. I make sure to mention both Lemmy and Kbin when I’m mentioning alternatives as an attempt to head that one off at the pass a bit.