Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  during the massive purge of rebellious mods, there was a huge opening for corporate shills to move into places where previous mods had kept them out. this phenomenon was widespread in many fan and specialty subs.

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everything about Reddit’s most recent changes has been openly about cracking the place wide open for corporate marketing. Everything good about it was because of how genuine it was, and it was genuine because for a very long time, the attitude was to shield it against corporate influence.

    That’s the only reason it became such a valuable place for search results: as the forums and blogs around the Internet went silent and corporations ravaged individual websites, reddit was a bubble of genuine interaction. It’s not just Google’s shitty algorithm, it’s also because the Internet itself got injected with shit, and reddit was a safe haven. A deeply flawed one, but still, notably less fake and corporate as the web pages around it.

    That’s what gave it value.

    Spez knows this. The admins have known this the whole damn time. That’s why there used to rules against self-posting content. That’s why celebrities were only allowed to promote things in AMAS.

    But the time came to make money, and they’re burning it all down to accomplish that.

    I will never not share this blog because it hits the nail so cleanly on the head it sails straight down to the core of the earth:

    Stop talking to each other and start buying things

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    • czardestructo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been through too many exodus, this post hits hard and true. Been using the net since 95 and have been a community refuge too many times. I’m really hoping federation takes off because I’m tired of rebuilding. Not sure I’ll try again if this doesn’t pan out.

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      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hate to break it to you but it will likely happen again. Meta is already encroaching on our new corner of the web, they’ll either eat it or it’ll die out on its own as funding doesn’t really exist here

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    • ChewTiger@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was an incredible read, thanks for sharing it. Please keep sharing it!

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Informational tragedy. Really is.

      This hurts us as consumers, patients, thinkers, feelers. :(

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• FriendOfElphaba@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m calling 1 year on the over/under for the introduction of blue check marks.

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean Reddit gold check marks

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You mean narwhal bacon badges.

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• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In a similar more minor vein, the Snowpeircer (tv show) sub was administered by the showrunners.
  They were mostly subtle about it, but quietly removed lots of posts after a week or so that didn’t fit show promo.
  I’m pretty sure they’ve abandoned it now that the show is in limbo.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since before the exodus or after?

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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Before and worse after

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had no idea. I am well aware of Lunacycle’s toxicity from endless-sphere.com.

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