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?

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    7 hours ago

    They already blocked the lemmy subreddit. Pretty sure they’re already doing anything that they can get away with.

  • brax@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    6 hours ago

    All the need to do is go back to 2010 Reddit when it was focused in content aggregation and had open API access.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    3·
    9 hours ago

    I mean, all they gotta do is make a rule stating that talking about any alternative platforms is against TOS, so probably just that, assuming they can actually enforce it.

    Otherwise, all they’d probably need to do is co-opt one of the morbidly obese, chronically online, single digit IQ power mods on there. In other words, any mod on that platform will do. All that bootlicker has to do is ban any and all free speech about Lemmy, as long as it’s positive.

  • Mechaguana@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 hours ago

      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

  • UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com
    14·
    16 hours ago

    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.

  • jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    15 hours ago

    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.

  • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip
    891·
    1 day ago

    They make a post asking Lemmy users a hypothetical question as to how they would go about doing it

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Also appoint a rural SE Asian snake handler, the kind that performs for tourists, as their CFO.

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    161·
    1 day ago

    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.