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[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

Federation is just complicated enough to keep the dummies out. Also probably defederating the idiot instances and better content moderation.

[-] wito@lemmy.techtailors.net 28 points 1 year ago

Not only that, but the community is small enough that large corporations and marketing companies don't care about it. Yet ;)

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I think this is the biggest reason. A huge amount of content on reddit is astroturfing / brand manipulation; both in posts and in the comments. And in addition to that, a there's a huge amount of 'karma farming', where heaps of popular but low-effort content is recycled over and over again to gain points and create a sense of credibility for accounts that will later be used for marketing / manipulation.

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

And at that point we can defederate from corporate instances. Its so user first.

[-] wito@lemmy.techtailors.net 11 points 1 year ago

It's not about corporate instances. It's the bots and fake accounts/posts/comments. That's one of the issues with Reddit. There are little authentic posts. Most of them are advertisements it just reposts to farm karma to avoid detection. It's ridiculous.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Which subs do you see this in?

[-] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

You're missing all the racism that's come forth since mod tools were lost

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It is, hopefully they get modded out

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