After years of using reddit, i finally deleted everything including my account there. Personally, i am not affected by the api prices, BUT, i couldn’t live with me supporting people, who see their userbase, moderators and creators as nothing but noise. The point i’m making? Greetings Lemmy. I joined a few days ago and i’m here to stay so cheers everyone and, hi
It’ll happen here, too.
People forget how obvious the efforts of Correct the Record and ShareBlue were on reddit.
Part of it was understandable: Trump sucks and any alternative was preferable, and reddit as a whole skews young and Democrat. So who cares, right?
But that level of astroturfing would have rightly been called out were the politics swapped.
And it goes way beyond politics. I’m sure Marvel and Disney are sending out feelers to control discussion in reddit alternatives.