Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

  • Schadrach
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    4 hours ago

    There’s no algorithm to be played in the fediverse.

    There presumably is. Some metric decides visibility on the feeds. That algorithm not being based on corporate profitability doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

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      9 minutes ago

      In fact, it doesn’t matter if there’s no internal incentive. If it’s being indexed and shows in searches it will have all the incentive needed to maximise SEO for profit.