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  • Bombastic@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Yeah i opened reddit recently and was immediately hit with those fake AITA stories that somehow i once kinda believed, and now, after being in more sane communities, those stories just look fabricated for maximum interaction.

    It baffles me how i never realised reddit, twitter and other socials leveraged the outrage machine so much until i joined lemmy.

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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      1 year ago

      Twitter is bad too. On top of the outrage bait, there’s a ton of garbage posts that are just designed to farm engagement: “Which of these 12 movies from the 1990s is your favorite?” - and the post is just 12 numbered movie covers.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t mean to bitch or anything, but this kind of post (other social platforms are bad) is a pretty decent engagement farm as well.

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          1 year ago

          I think this post is likely to get people talking, but the intent was just to make something funny.

          The stuff I’m referring to on twitter is this kind of (borderline phishing in this case) nonsense:

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      1 year ago

      I went back and got irrationally angry… immediately realized Reddit was pure cancer.