• yucandu@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.

    Reddit’s product is the ability to sell people the perception of a natural conversation between two ordinary people on the internet, where the conversation is shaped by corporations and state agents.

    Actual ordinary people get in the way of that. Reddit does not want users.

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      3 days ago

      Most of Reddit’s users do not post, comment, or even vote.

      Tbf the 90-9-1 rule applies everywhere on social media, ostensibly including here though many claim to have merely lurked there yet actually talk here. But we may still have a 51-48-1 distribution here?

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        3 days ago

        I definitely feel more motivated to participate here, because of the emphasis on human to human interactions

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      2 days ago

      Can attest to that. I tried starting a new reddit account with an anonymous email just to talk to people. Apparently reddit assumed I was a bot and shadow banned me within a week. Never had that with any other emails.

      • yucandu@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Actually all new accounts are shadowbanned by default automatically if they start commenting too much right away. 3 months old gives you full privileges.