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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There isn't explicitly a profit motive on here (unlike almost every other big social media site).

So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming...

We don't do that here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just wait until things grow. Those people will come once there is an audience to extract money from.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming..."

Are there many individual users who participate in these type of activities?

My understanding is that a lot of it is automated: farming with the intent to make accounts look legitimate and eventually manipulate public opinion to whatever ends (like selling a product/service).

Is kbin doing anything different that would curb or dissuade such behavior?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but the ROI here is way less since the users are more savvy initially. Eventually it'll homogenize out and you'll get auto bots.

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