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The purpose of reddit is to keep people engaged while seeing ads. That's it.
it's odd because I find lemmy more engaging, but perhaps its because of clickbait discussions that come up on the first page.
Lemmy is built for the community. Reddit just wants you to stay long enough to look at ads.
Wait, reddit has ads?!
Good grief, thank God I left
Try the official app. It's awful.
Upvotes and downvotes on ads are just cosmetic, they don't do anything.
It hurts their feelings, sometimes that’s enough
Anything but. They'll be using that feedback to profile you, to better target ads at people like you. It's like Facebook's "I want to see less ads like this". It's to give an appearance of control. But really it implicitly means "show me more of what I didn't reject". Even if you're there anonymously they'll be associating any interaction you make with the ad with the subs you visit, the types of comment you make etc
Or even better, block them.
Then get your whole account blocked as a gift by Mr. Dont-Block-Our-Friends Huffman Musk. (No, dont make fun of his name! It was a gift from his mother.)
Replace "reddit" with any free service. Welcome to the Internet.
And before you "ackshually Lemmy" me, someone is paying for it. Perhaps even you, if you've donated to your home instance.
People donating aren't pushing shitification in search of profits though...
The Fediverse - being "free as in beer" rather than "free because you're the product being sold" is different.
It's different because it costs somebody money. If you're being an asshole on commercial social media, the company has financial incentives to keep you around. You're bringing in more eyeballs.
If you're being an asshole on a Fediverse server, it costs an admin something. They have to deal with complaints. They have potential reputational loss or defederation for their server. The server that they pay for!
Admins are paying for the server, so they must decide: is all this bullshit worth it? Is it something they really believe in and stand by with their real money and energy?
I think that changes the calculus of assholes, bots, and Onlyfans on social media.
100% correct. It's a powerful illusion because back in the day it was a real site with real people on it. It's taking some folks a long time to pick up on this.
There is almost no real content on there. If it's not a bot / AI, it's some shill with an agenda. It's all about the ads and clicks.