There's a huge difference between alienating people in an effort to make the website profitable, and outright paying hackers to go after Lemmy, which would be a criminal action. Let's not get all big brain on here and pretend Lemmy.world is a threat to Reddit and is pulling away tons of users, to the point that Spez needs it out of commission. I didn't jump here from Reddit to promote conspiracies

Nah. There's far too much risk for Reddit to be involved. If even one hacker spilled the beans it'd cause a massive panic for Reddit investors.