• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This is necessary now that Reddit is astroturfed to high heaven. One benefit of this being a small community is we haven’t caught the attention of the SEO whores and product shills.

    • MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I agree about reddit, but unfortunately, I don’t think lemmy is free from astroturfing. Myself and others have noticed that there are many users on lemmy who seem to be purposefully antagonistic towards other lemmy users. The possible reason may be to drive people away from lemmy and hinder its growth.

      I’ve experienced pro-reddit astroturfing on lemmy. I posted this criticism of reddit on the reddit@lemmy.world comm, and it was heavily astroturfed and then deleted by the mod for a bogus reason.

      A year later, someone used that post to attack me while insinuating purely from the title that I was at fault because the reddit admins would never do something like that (despite all the public information to the contrary).

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        2 months ago

        there are many users on lemmy who seem to be purposefully antagonistic towards other lemmy users.

        Nuh-uh! Shut up stupid!

        /joking.

    • technomad@slrpnk.netOP
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      2 months ago

      That’s kind of why I think there would need to be certain rules like ‘no sponsored content’

      I’d like it to be for products that people like, but maybe just need some help being improved (or just having fun speculating about how it could be better maybe).