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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" ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unfortunately there's probably a large amount of users who simply don't care.

But that's okay. What matters is content creators, not content consumers. Anyone with half a gram of decency and self integrity will have realized that they need to take steps to move away from Reddit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When the content creators leave and go to Lemmy/Kbin, eventually those content consumers will leave and go with them too. Will be a bonus for the Fediverse

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need to ask Louis Rossmann to join the fediverse. He's been super critical with Reddit on YouTube.

[โ€“] impulse 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure he's already aware and will make an account if he wants to.

There's no point in shoving the Fediverse in someone's face.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some slight reassurance never hurt anyone, that's worlds from advertising or pushing though.

[โ€“] iturnedintoanewt 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dumb question... Sorry, what's kbin? I've seen it mentioned together to Lemmy, but it's all rather new to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's another piece of software that seeks to provide a federated experience similar to reddit. It is pretty cool! It also has pretty good support for browsing Lemmy instances, and Activity Pub messages that are . Definitely recommend checking it out. I think it can coexist very healthily alongside Lemmy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kbin, like Mastodon and Lemmy, is another way to interact with the fediverse through ActivityPub. Like Lemmy, it's similar to reddit in style.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I care and Iโ€™m here. I count as do all of us! Fuck โ€˜em!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Let the milquetoast mouth-breathers stay behind. With sufficient brain-drain, Reddit will eventually look like Quora.