"Don't attribute malice when you can attribute stupidity."
I would not be surprised at all if that user was not aware of which instance they opened or tried after opening join-lemmy.org. Many people are not very mindful or thorough or intentional in how they use technology or software or services. They probably do not even know what an instance is - and so linked the lemmy website.
There's definitely corpo sockpuppets and bots involved, some of which have even straight up posted AI bot warnings about not being able to generate offensive content (oops!) but there's plenty of ignorant people too.
That said, I'm kind of OK with them staying on reddit because people like that had been making reddit progressively worse for years and years at it gained popularity. Hopefully the relative obscurity of Lemmy will prevent that from happening for a while yet.
It was a matter of time. They'll give us a stupid name to refer to us from now on soon enough too.
Might I suggest Lemmigrants?
Rexxitors.
Let them stay there then. We can't force people to join us here. If they choose to believe those kind of brigading comments then they do not have the level of critical thinking to become a meaningful contributor to any site. Those who wanted to move have already moved. Those remaining there are those who chose to ignore the issue, or support reddit.
Wouldn't care to be honest. Let reddit be shit, all sorts of slander origi ate from there anyway.
and for some bizarre reason, there are people here who want to scape all this reddit crap with a bot and dump it in our /all feed. I just dont get it.
I think the majority of those people just don't care and are against change.
I can say that to the non-technical person, Lemmy would be a bit confusing due to having to pick a server. However, once you get past that point, Lemmy is a perfectly viable alternative to Reddit, as long as the user base remains active.
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.