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This feels like a weird conspiracy theory.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure they have their eyes peeled at a growing competitor, but is there anything weird or creepy about this?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Spying on your competitors is as old as commerce itself

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am gonna have a big sarcastic shocked Pikachu face when we discoverer reddit made a large chunk of all those bot accounts just to data harvest and influence lemmy.

I wouldnโ€™t even call reddit spying on lemmy a conspiracy, just a natural part of competition in business.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think it was reddit, I think it was meta. Don't want to join our fedimetaverse? Ok, good thing we seeded all your instances with bots that will take you down from their inside before you said no :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

All the reddit posts smack of a toxic environment. It's like breaking up with a bad ex. In your case, you're worried you're going to see them somewhere, in a city full of 3 million people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'd be surprised if they weren't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Would that be a problem for us?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Spez is that you?

^deleted other comment because I meant to make a top level one^ (I don't know how superscript works here)