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A senior Google VP said earlier this month that Google users who couldn't add "Reddit" to their queries were “not quite happy” following the protest.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The problem is that Lemmy is not immune to this. Even Reddit was vulnerable, just not in the traditional ways.

If Lemmy grows to that level, we will 100% have a problem with SEO bots, fake reviews, etc. We are already seeing a problem with a particularly toxic instance, instances hosting potentially and widely illegal content, along with enormous and problematic walled gardens. (Names withheld because that's not the point here)

I can only hope that as the codebase and community mature, we can address these issues before they become catastrophic.