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?
They make a post asking Lemmy users a hypothetical question as to how they would go about doing it
man I miss the open internet; these walled gardens suck ass
The only one that really pisses me off is Discord. I bet there’s TBs of valuable hype-specific tech support in there that will never be findable via search engines
His eyes look so weird in this pic.
They could undo some of the enshittification that Reddit has undergone over the past few years.
Yes, but stock market.
They could create 6 accounts that post nothing but old memes all day every day
wait
Those “avatars” reek of the metaverse.
I swear it’s where the idea came from.
Source: my ass
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.
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?
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.
I…can’t say I have the same experience. I haven’t had this problem.
A few thoughts:
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Offer the folks running the largest instances a full-time, salaried position. Make them feel like kings/queens. (You will eventually fire them/try to destroy them.)
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Now Steve Huffman uploads the special folder on his desktop labeled PRIVATE GOONING MATERIAL and leaks to media that Lemmy is a haven of CP, so that eventually government gets involved and targets Lemmy as a left-wing radical organization allied with Antifa.
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Introduce a Reddit fediverse instance and aggressively federate with the remaining major instances while also encouraging the federation of Facebook, Google, etc…
They for sure would federate with lemmy, claiming reddit to be the main hub for Lemmy.
But after a good while start randomly dropping/blocking different lemmy instances and just try to stop content being shared across lemmy itself.
It’s also right in the ballpark for a zuckerberg stunt as well…
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Step one, appoint a Cobra Commander.
Also appoint a rural SE Asian snake handler, the kind that performs for tourists, as their CFO.
why do they have to turn everyone into these weird funko pops
Wasn’t the lemmy sub recently banned?
Nice try reddit execs!
Yes, but I think Lemmy is too busy hurting itself to really notice.
Which one killed Aaron?
Honestly, they should focus on actively moderating their content. I just deleted that app again, its full of ai generated content, full of agitprop, bots commenting walls and walls of engagement, everything and anything is an occasion for culture war bullshit…
Its insane how much the product has degraded, its like one good post for 20 scrolled down, and like half of them are reposts of the same goddamn content from months ago.
I think we should cherish lemmy, and hope to hell that it doesnt become that.
Sorting by new for me on any of the bigger subreddits shows me there being only a few posts a day yet each post will have insane amounts of botted responses. Only thing keeping me on there are the local subreddits and r/standupcomedy. Even r/news sucks there. 5.8 million subscribers but 7 posts within 24 hours (that are at least visible). How would there be almost no discussion when there’s more than a small country of people allegedly viewing this
They already blocked the lemmy subreddit. Pretty sure they’re already doing anything that they can get away with.
Damn, the photographer did one hell of a job to not make Spez look like the creepy little pedophile he is.
