• Drewfro66
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    1 year ago

    Reminds me of how Reddit had “Community Engagement Ambassadors” (or w/e they were called) who were paid to just go around making low-effort engagement-farming posts on random communities like “What’s your favorite X in this game?” or “What do you think [sports team]'s greatest strength is?”.

    People tend to look down on that sort of thing in retrospect, but this sort of “manufactured engagement” is likely the key factor in Reddit’s success as a platform.

    I sometimes wonder if I (or just people in general) should start doing this on Lemmy as well, and whether the increased engagement would be worth the bad faith interaction.

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      1 year ago

      I did a bit of that for the community I am trying to build, but I was genuinely interested and gave my own thoughts on the matter. I can’t keep that kind of thing up forever though. I only care so much. 😵‍💫

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      1 year ago

      I think real questions that actually had some faith, curiousity and effort behind it are going to be a bless. And then comments discussing that question patiently is awesome to see.

      And lemmy don’t have the need that reddit had at that time.