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• Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Perhaps not, but I don’t doubt that it’s had an effect for the worse either way

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  • Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think effect is really not obvious. Could you explain what makes you feel this way? Consider:

    • People still on the platform probably care little about it. We left, so there’s probably a survivor bias?
    • Bots have substantially more technology to ‘seamlessly’ hide than even a few years ago.
    • Companies have more direct ways to advertise (sponsored answers, for eg) that I don’t think are counted by the survey. Maybe fewer are buying bots/karma farming/DM spamming.

    My gut feelings are pessimistic. But I would like my beliefs to be a little more grounded than that.

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    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think my pessimism is just based purely on how other tech companies operate, and the nature of large publically traded companies, they have every obligation to make more cash for shareholders. There’s only so many ways to do that, cut costs, sell more, or raise prices. Easiest is to cut costs, so fewer admins on worse hardware. There’s always only so many customers who will ever buy, and demand elasticity determines how much they can charge at any given moment.

      Advertisers are one customer they can work with really easily, I don’t doubt that posts could be seeded internally for those purposes. Again though, all this is hearsay based on poll numbers, just the nature of the beast informs my thoughts on it

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