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?
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.
You mean, make the Fediverse even more like Reddit?
The worst parts of Reddit and 4Chan combined and push it to the forefront
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.
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.