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[–] [email protected] 191 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Doesn't matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don't care what is drawn, as long as it's nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write "fuck u/spez"? Sure, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"No such thing as bad publicity" comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the end of the day, ragebait is still ragebait, and brings in clicks (as well as ad revenue)...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i was there, placed a cube, happy with my adblocker and left for my daily 10 minute dose of modcoord where i look at the first one or two post and answer questions about lemmy

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