Well, I know of an easy litmus test.

In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth (1989) Clearing or June Fourth Massacre, Chinese government troops murdered several hundred citizens and students who were protesting for freedom of speech and freedom of the press, among other things.

That's actually hilarious. Once you analyse it, it boils down to three things:

1. Ad hominem towards the devs. It's so idiotic that I won't waste my time with it.
2. Conflation of the flagship instance (lemmy.ml) with the platform as a whole. As if you had to use lemmy.ml to use the platform (you don't).
3. Incorrectly assigning privacy concerns of social media as a whole to Lemmy in specific.

The third point actually deserves some clarification: no matter if it's Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Mastodon, Lemmy or any other sort of social media, you should be extra careful with what you share, as it might eventually bite you back. It is public communication, treat it as such; it is not private conversation. Regardless of Lemmy storing it or not, consider what you share publicly with the internet as potentially staying forever, and be mindful with it.

So all three points are actually invalid. This might convince some irrationals to stay clear off the platform, but frankly? This is actually good for people here.

The constant politics argument is tiring. Do you know the politics of the guy who made your favorite game? What about the guy who made your text editor? Or your browser? Or the software in your microwave? Or grew your food? Or the guy who made that song you like? What about the owner of the last convenience store you bought your mtdew from?

Even if the commentary is coming from an honest point of view and not just shitty astroturfing (and it very much isn't), it doesn't matter. If you don't like it, use an instance that's not run by them and who cares.

I've seen the privacy post a ton. It's hilarious to me because there's never any comparison to Reddit's privacy policy.

I know it's anecdotal (and late to this post), but I went back lurking my own profile today, and one of the arguments I had with someone regarding the API changes, and the commenter I was arguing with had about 1k more upvotes now more than 2 weeks later. It was in the middle of a conversation thread and none of the other comments in the whole post had anywhere close to that many votes.

I wouldn't generally consider myself as someone who would suspect brigading (and honestly, i'm cool with people who dissagree with me), but I can't think of any other reason why that comment had so many upvotes so long after the conversation took place.

I hope that site crashes and burns and I hope those VC's loose their shirts on their IPO.

Definition of concern trolling. As if Reddit gives a shit about your privacy either.

Reddit: You're giving your information to strangers! You don't know what they'll do it with it!

Me: Weren't you going to sell my data?

Reddit: Yeah, but that's different! We're a respectable adult capitalist business. These are fucking commie pinko freaks we're talking about here!

All options that aren't federated are just as reasonably suspect when it comes to good stewardship of your data. A federated universe means if you really are that worried about it, you can spin up your own instance and be able to trust yourself with your own data.

Also, is it really a shocker that Reddit would turn to McCarthy-era Red Scare tactics? What's next, hiring the fucking Pinkertons like Wizards of the Coast did?

The top comment there explains why it doesn't matter as you have plenty of other instances than Lemmy.ml to select. I wouldn't worry about those posts too much, actually they kinda make good promotion for Lemmy

I wouldn't give a shit if it was just hating Lemmy, you do you. But Lemmy has had many many incidents of people from other platforms (usually one of the 'chans) coming over to either troll or get the motivation to "convert" Lemmy users to their views (basically more trolling but with an obvious agenda). Not come over and try to debate us mind you, more like posting porn and/or gore with extremely "politically incorrect" titles and captions.

We might be in for a few more of those is what I'm saying.

I mean those people can stay there. We don't want them here. Like minded people will check it out and stay and the weirdos will stay on Reddit.

As if Lemmy.ml is the only Lemmy exists.

... yea probably. I'd do that if I were spez. It's a sound move from his position, surprisingly.

Most of the comments in there are shooting him down and telling people they can join another instance if they don’t want to see the ML shit

I have to ask.

Is there any truth to what has been said about Lemmy's dev ?

is lemmy and kbin the only two federations that's reddit-like for now?

App apocalypse... Appocalypse? Goddamn has this really been staring me in the face the whole month and I only see it now?

No publicity is bad publicity, so they're actually promoting Lemmy for free.

I killed my reddit account. Done with em and not looking back.

I figured I'd wrap up some unfinished business on reddit and then quit. In fact I stopped giving a shit about reddit so the unfinished business is likely to stay pending forever.