I think this is legitimately it.

This isn’t sycophantic, it’s desperation. They’re watching the future of their industry (mRNA) disappear right in front of them, along with the related money.

They need Trump to get it in his head that the vaccine makes him a hero, so that MAGA will come around on vaccines and keep them rich.

No doubt in my mind. I bet that hurt to come out and say publicly.

Tbh I’m not sure the average Reddit user is who we want to attract here anyway. Not to be elitist, but there might be a benefit to at least some barrier to entry. From a bot/spam/troll perspective as well.

Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all