Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days

HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• anachronist@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah the fediverse has lower engagement all around because the community is a lot smaller. This is especially true in “long tail” communities. However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

  That being said, while I appreciate the chronological feed I do wish there was some way to “weigh” less active communities so that I can see their activity in my feed without them being drowned out by the busier communities. I’ve noticed that I’ve gone to communities that I’m definitely subscribed to, and seen that there were several posts that I missed because the posts were drowned out by content in busy communities like, for instance, technology@beehaw.org

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  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

    There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is that not what the scaled sort is for?

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• ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That makes sense tho given how the FV has pretty low engagement and most of it is still good bots doing housekeeping or trying to boost exposure.

  I guess I just didn’t think Reddit would collapse sooooo fast!

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