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- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 7 hours ago:
Any time now. Or in the past 10,000 years would be great
- Comment on Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use 18 hours ago:
Most of their income comes directly from Google, the incumbent browser monopoly. I’m full tin foil hat on this one, Google is pulling the strings here.
- Comment on Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use 1 day ago:
Idk the CEOs $6mil salary sounds more like malice to me
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
? It’s a well established strategy. I’m not speculating, this is how social media marketing works. You can find all sorts of resources on how marketers strategize about these things.
old.reddit.com/…/commenting_as_a_social_media_str…
This has gotten quite pedantic but being paid is not a requirement, just is most often how it’s done:
Advertising (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertising) 1: the action of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcements
I’m not trying to tell you how to post, genuine recommendations are the only form of advertising I respect. But it is advertising and companies have every incentive to astroturf that.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
Sorry, I meant nothing towards anyone in particular, just mostly want to point out the strong likelihood companies are posting here. It’s a when, not an if. The bigger Lemmy gets the more money there is to be made here.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
Well sure it is. I mean nonpaid advertising is the best kind for everyone since it’s likely to actually be honest and actually listened to but it’s not always easy to tell from some comments what their true motivations are. Thus the existence of astroturfing.
Kagi probably has a social media manager or hires a marketing agency (as most companies do) and their time would be well spent posting on Lemmy (and other sites) about Kagi but in as organically of a way as possible since we’re all pretty ad averse here. I mean, it’s possible Kagi specifically isn’t doing it, but it is a matter of when, not if, companies start doing that here.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
I tend to be suspicious of any brand name dropping. It’s where most reddit advertising happens too.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
Not trying to say there is no organic discussion, but I would be shocked if they were ignoring this avenue for getting the word out. It’s basically free advertising and advertising is generally expensive.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
I mean the idea is to appear organic, it’s not very effective advertising otherwise. It’s free real estate there is no reason they would not be doing it.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
Makes sense they advertise here enough
- Comment on Engineers achieve multiplexing entanglement in quantum network 1 week ago:
I bet this would be a super cool read if I understood any of it
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 3 months ago:
This piqued my curiosity so I dug into it a bit on Wikipedia. Most worms are dumb as fuck, roundworms are about as dumb as they come with total neuron counts for a roundworm being comparable to a microscopic tartigrade (300 vs 200). Most of this is located in the head of the worm in a brain like structure though, so I’m betting the clones develop their brains independently with no information transfer. I doubt there’s a ton of learning/memory forming going on at all though, based on how simple worms are, so it’s probably functionally identical. I would be surprised if most worm species exhibit any kind of learned behaviors ever.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 4 months ago:
Thanks, I wish more people did their own tests and published them like this since marketing for electronics is loose at best
- Comment on Despite Online Threats, Users Aren’t Changing Behavior 4 months ago:
You might get hacked but it’s more likely windows or your updated app might add new bugs or ads or some shit. Quality on updates is often terrible.
Probably not the greatest move but users are generally punished when they update software more often than gain anything (usually just the promise of marginally more secure software) so they are implicitly encouraged to avoid updates.
Would be awesome if software was secure on purchase and not sold as a subscription service.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 5 months ago:
If you enjoy base-building at all as well try Rift Breaker. It’s basically Diablo with tower defense, great game.
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 5 months ago:
The CDC reports rates pretty well below the general average, at least for 2021.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 5 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on If lemmy.world became the biggest in the fediverse with a user base that could rival Reddit. Would it become monetized? 6 months ago:
I think there is an arms race with content moderation that even if the instance is not themselves trying to monetize, clever and unscrupulous ad agencies will slip ads into feeds under the guise of actual content. I think it’s a big reason Reddit went to shit even before it went public.
How do you separate a user who innocently includes McDonald’s into a post or comment from someone doing so with the intention of driving revenue? (Do you want some fries now?)
It’s probably already the case now just the ‘ads’ are mostly all political shit. Same idea just with a top-down political agenda rather than driving sales. They have all the public fediverse data to base their strategies on already.
I think this issue is just handwaved away with “oh go to a different instance” but we’re here for content ultimately and not all instances have what we’re looking for. Ad agencies are going to be able to adapt to a changing landscape like that because it’s literally their full time jobs/careers.
