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?
How could they actually sabotage Lemmy
The most logical approach I can think of would be starting up an instance, flooding it with bots, and using those bots to spread to other instances.
However I don’t use Lemmy super often but from what I understand intance admins can block other instances so it wouldn’t kill Lemmy entirely, it would just make it worse to use, which is a detriment because the most-cited reason I see for not getting involved in fediverse apps seems to be the learning curve upon entry. Open instances would be flooded with bots and all actively maintained instances would need to start isolating themselves from other instances and heavily screen who gets in
The instance would just get defederated within 24 hours by 90% of the fediverse.
They make a post asking Lemmy users a hypothetical question as to how they would go about doing it
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
Meep moop.
Source: my neck, my back, my pussy and my ass
They could undo some of the enshittification that Reddit has undergone over the past few years.
Yes, but stock market.
The people can’t climb back up their shit slide out of their shithole.
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
I’d wager it’ll be used to train some AI or something of that nature…
His eyes look so weird in this pic.
Yep I thought that. He looks like a serial killer
Step one, appoint a Cobra Commander.
Also appoint a rural SE Asian snake handler, the kind that performs for tourists, as their CFO.
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
Yes, but I think Lemmy is too busy hurting itself to really notice.
They already blocked the lemmy subreddit. Pretty sure they’re already doing anything that they can get away with.
my motiviation for using lemmy isn’t that I like lemmy, it’s that I hate reddit. so yeah, go for it spaz, i’ll just use the next clone.
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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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?
The worst parts of Reddit and 4Chan combined and push it to the forefront
Of course it was hypothetical. Cmon man
I figured it was hypothetical but there wasn’t any lead-in and it was said with such certainty
The lead in was “let’s assume”.
I understood that to be referring to only that sentence, and it’s not even something that needs to be assumed since it is known.
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.
Those snoo avatars for the execs look like the most soulless looking art styles possible, sort of like how Chuck E Cheese got rebranded. Pretty gross.
I wonder why gaysian man has no avatar?
AI bot spam everywhere.
The server would probably just get defederated.
Nice try, spez. Your empire is crumbling.
