Let’s assume the top executives of Reddit are worried about Lemmy.

Lemmy is taking away users and attention. The ressources that Reddit is desperately attempting to sell to advertisers.

In a meeting, Steve Huffman, Jen Wong, Drew Vollero and Jim Squires decide to spend $1 million dollars on a secret project called Cobra.

Their goal is simple : to destroy Lemmy. Apart from the top management, no Reddit employee is aware of project Cobra, because it must not leak in the media.

How could they actually sabotage Lemmy?

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    In a meeting, Steve Huffman, Jen Wong, Drew Vollero and Jim Squires decide to spend $1 million dollars on a secret project called Cobra.

    The goal is simple. Try to destroy Lemmy. Apart from the top management, no employee is aware of project Cobra, because it must not leak.

    You are speaking hypothetically, correct? Otherwise, source?

    Their best strategy would be to poison the content with bot accounts, spam, and morally tasteless voices. Sullying the public perception of the content and services would stigmatize users. Since servers are funded by users and other donors, corporate lobbying or DDoS attacking to make it more expensive to host servers would also be an underhanded strategy.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      2·
      10 days ago

      Their best strategy would be to poison the content with bot accounts, spam, and morally tasteless voices

      You mean, make the Fediverse even more like Reddit?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Sullying the public perception of the content

      Lemmy does that all by itself. I spent the first two weeks stamping out barely disguised anime loli porn and furry porn. Shit still pops up like herpes.