That's what it felt like for me after I posted anything lol. But is it bots, is it Reddit themselves?
It wouldn't surprise me, a lot of people don't care or just aren't interested in change.
I haven't noticed.
However, something I have noticed about people is that they justify their behaviour.
So if they buy a Toyota and Dad has a Nissan, he'll ask them why they didn't buy a Nissan... If they buy a Nissan and Dad has a Toyota, they'll similarly be able to fight for their corner.
What people don't do is to buy a Nissan and say 'sure, I bought the dogshit car because I'm stupid'.
Something that's true is that Reddit aggregated a lot of behaviour on internet, and so it's obviously true that Lemmy cannot compete with that - not even close. For many use-cases, there are no viable alternatives.
The best thing that will come of this is that people become aware that they have alternatives to Youtube/Google, Reddit, Facebook, Chrome etc.
People need to work to build an independent internet and not allow this shit to happen.
They need to stop signing TOS agreements that they can't even read through or comprehend.
I came here to look to see if this topic was covered. I just checked my mod queue and every single post made by my automod OR other users about Lemmy was reported multiple times for "harassment" with 40+ down votes as well. I've literally never had a full mod queue that was more than 6 things before and I had 30 or more posts to approve with 3 being actual things. What the fuck.
My two cents: good! Let the shitty people stay on reddit. I'm loving the respectful communities here on lemmy, and don't really want those clowns coming over and messing it up for us.
It was a matter of time. They'll give us a stupid name to refer to us from now on soon enough too.
Rexxitors.
Lemmings.
Might I suggest Lemmigrants?