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?
They could undo some of the enshittification that Reddit has undergone over the past few years.
Yes, but stock market.
These people can’t climb back up their shit slide out of their shithole.
man I miss the open internet; these walled gardens suck ass
Step one, appoint a Cobra Commander.
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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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.
Nice try, spez. Your empire is crumbling.
AI bot spam everywhere.
This is all hypothetical of course.
But when actually you think about it, it sounds realistic. Many corporations operate like organized crime.
why do they have to turn everyone into these weird funko pops
Wasn’t the lemmy sub recently banned?
The countdown is on. How long until banned?
Which one killed Aaron?
They’d have to pay out the $1M to consultants to forward for any actually-effective hands-on gruntwork of trying to influence the social media user market, or technical attacks on the code infrastructure or federated service provider resources. It would show somewhere in their financials.
Nice try reddit execs!
Damn, the photographer did one hell of a job to not make Spez look like the creepy little pedophile he is.
