They introduced, with much fanfare, a mysterious new way of counting votes, and back-propagated it. Suddenly, all upvotes of past and present posts and comments got boosted by a factor of 8-9 or so. Felt hollow, manufactured, disingenuous.
The founders admitted that in the early days, they made up lots of sock puppet accounts which talked to each other. That eerie, self-congratulatory sentiment never really left the site.
Proven to tamper with comments.
That derailed AMA with Julian Assange. It felt 99.9% inorganic.
And so much more.
My Discord registration was denied several times without explanation, so as soon as I discovered Lemmy, I came over and never looked back.
It took years for me to really disconnect.
And so much more.
My Discord registration was denied several times without explanation, so as soon as I discovered Lemmy, I came over and never looked back.