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Engagement and reposting bs? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by half_built_pyramids to c/[email protected]

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I've seen what I think are pseudo engagement bait type posts, but I'm a little confused why that's happening here.

There's no incentive to have big karma accounts to sell on Lemmy, is there?

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[–] kaktus 2 points 2 years ago

And to keep new people engaged. If someone signes up and there is barely any content to scroll throgh, they go right back to reddit and lemmy will never take off.