Not official, labeled ones but eventually if it gets too popular, marketing teams will just create fake users and post ads as fake posts. Same as Reddit and any other social media platform has problems with
Reddit was shitty, just because it’s people and people suck. But I hung around because…I’m a masochist I guess. I left because of the 3rd party shit. I’ve never gone back. As that great '80s pop band said,“People are people.”
For me it is not the same because shittiness of the head board also counts a lot in the equation. Because of the federation you have some opportunity to find variations that help you being more comfortable.
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You will always be able to distinguish this place from Reddit. There are no ads or “sponsored” posts here on Lemmy.
Not official, labeled ones but eventually if it gets too popular, marketing teams will just create fake users and post ads as fake posts. Same as Reddit and any other social media platform has problems with
Reddit was shitty, just because it’s people and people suck. But I hung around because…I’m a masochist I guess. I left because of the 3rd party shit. I’ve never gone back. As that great '80s pop band said,“People are people.”
Nowadays, Reddit is some people and A LOT of bots. The bots are worse than the people.
We already have scammers private messaging me here. They get nearly insta banned the minute I report one, but this is a small place.
Let’s say lemmy gets popular. I can’t see why bots wouldn’t be a plague here too.
For me it is not the same because shittiness of the head board also counts a lot in the equation. Because of the federation you have some opportunity to find variations that help you being more comfortable.