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Should Lemmy buy ads on Reddit? (fedidb.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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User count has plateaued at about 420K

Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K

Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.

Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?

Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?

I can see it now:

"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."

and

"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"

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[–] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A study just came out that was posted in Hexbear showing at least 15% of Reddit content is corporate botting so we should just have some fun with LLMs and AstroTurf it instead like everyone else is doing

[–] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd posit those numbers are much, much higher, and some guys who used to do our Megathreads over in r/Android now keep getting random bots commenting against months, even years old posts - https://archive.is/OmW0f

I spotted em years ago over in their many test subreddits and reddit actually outsourced them as a QA testing.