• skulblaka@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Tinfoil hat theory: OG Lemmyheads are attacking the big centralized communities and taking them down in order to force all the new users to spread amongst the smaller instances like we’re supposed to, preventing inevitable corporate control of the ActivityPub platform

    I doubt that’s anywhere close to the truth but I choose to believe it, crusty old hackers pulling the plug on their children for our own good

    • Candelestine@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      As possible as anything else, but it would be unusual. I find it strange that people are so eager to reach for unusual explanations when the actual, conventional extremist trolls absolutely exist. This would be 100% in-character for them, and would benefit their goals very clearly.

      Occam’s Razor.

      Additionally, they would try to point the finger at absolutely everyone except for them, as that would clearly serve their goals of general misinformation and distrust.

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        To be totally clear, they literally said it’s a tinfoil theory. To me that implies they’re just wildly speculating.

    • noodle
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      1 year ago

      That sounds like a good way to make people go back to Reddit