• wito@lemmy.techtailors.net
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    1 year ago

    Not only that, but the community is small enough that large corporations and marketing companies don’t care about it. Yet ;)

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      1 year ago

      I think this is the biggest reason. A huge amount of content on reddit is astroturfing / brand manipulation; both in posts and in the comments. And in addition to that, a there’s a huge amount of ‘karma farming’, where heaps of popular but low-effort content is recycled over and over again to gain points and create a sense of credibility for accounts that will later be used for marketing / manipulation.

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      1 year ago

      And at that point we can defederate from corporate instances. Its so user first.

      • wito@lemmy.techtailors.net
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        It’s not about corporate instances. It’s the bots and fake accounts/posts/comments. That’s one of the issues with Reddit. There are little authentic posts. Most of them are advertisements it just reposts to farm karma to avoid detection. It’s ridiculous.