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  • zabadoh@lemmy.mlOPtoLemmy@lemmy.mlShould Lemmy buy ads on Reddit?
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    5 months ago

    You’d be surprised.

    I have a RL friend who’s on Reddit all the time, and he didn’t even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I’ve been trying to sell it to him…

    Re: The “We’re elite” becomes “We’re bored talking among the same old people” or “We’re burned out”, leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.

    I’ve been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.







  • It’s part of the ol’ Big Tech playbook:

    If a promising emerging competitor emerges:

    1. Acquire the emerging competitor for cheap when it’s still small
    2. Copy the competitor’s best features to make them irrelevant
    3. Co-opt them with integration so the competitor’s users won’t see any advantage to staying with them
    4. Pollute the competitor’s content to make your own offering look better
    5. Steal the competitor’s best talent

  • I’m not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.

    I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy’s collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.

    A common IP address or address range ban file that’s frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.

    If this is actually an org attack, I’m guessing that we’ll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.