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I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 11 months ago by LemmyBe to c/showerthoughts

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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They started inflating upvotes for sponsored content, about six years ago? It’s around when /popular/ became a thing. Posts with +1000 suddenly had +7000 or more.

[–] Z4rK 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Could an instance on Lemmy go commercial and try to do something similar? Let’s say .world continues to outgrow the others and in a year or two it’s time for them to capitalize on their size.

I guess at some point some instances will go “rogue” in one or more ways and it will be interesting challenges to the fediverse to deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Honestly I have no idea! Can instances fake numbers like Reddit did? I mean, they could use a bunch of bit accounts to fake upvoting and downvoting I suppose, but it’s all public info here instead of all being hidden.