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.
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. 😵💫
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.
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.
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. 😵💫
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.