I'm sure they have their eyes peeled at a growing competitor, but is there anything weird or creepy about this?
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Spying on your competitors is as old as commerce itself
All the reddit posts smack of a toxic environment. It's like breaking up with a bad ex. In your case, you're worried you're going to see them somewhere, in a city full of 3 million people.
I'd be surprised if they weren't.
I am gonna have a big sarcastic shocked Pikachu face when we discoverer reddit made a large chunk of all those bot accounts just to data harvest and influence lemmy.
I wouldnβt even call reddit spying on lemmy a conspiracy, just a natural part of competition in business.
I don't think it was reddit, I think it was meta. Don't want to join our fedimetaverse? Ok, good thing we seeded all your instances with bots that will take you down from their inside before you said no :)
Would that be a problem for us?
They're way, wwaay, waaaaaaaaaayyy too busy for that right now. lol Otherwise they probably would be, at least a little bit.
Just standard keeping an eye on a competitor. Not doing that would be very foolish. Not that he's a smart guy or anything, but "watch your competitors" is pretty basic stuff.
Why would that matter?
Spez is that you?
^deleted other comment because I meant to make a top level one^ (I don't know how superscript works here)
Well, then I hope they watch and learn!
If they're as toxic as they seem, then just live your best life. We now have a jealous audience that's obsessed with us. They'll eventually get upset at how pathetic they are, get bored, and find another victim to abuse.
who cares?
Iβm sure they are but they wonβt care bc they think that the API changes will bring them more money and they donβt see lemmy as a big enough competitor.