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.
That’s not frustrating at all! That’s GOOD! It’s proof they see Lemmy as a threat, and right now, it is!
And maybe the newbie hose will be less violent, meaning the instances have more time to beef up and fix other problems.
I still wonder how my Lemmy (planning on using a correct Linux box on a 1Gb line) should be “configurated”, like lots of users, lots of “subs”, images etc to be of use not just in the shirt time … and I’m quite sure I’m not the only one :-) !