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 [http://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.
Great post about breathing new life into the Internet 🙂