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Chozo ,

Pretty sure that's exactly what they want. Those are way more neutral/marketable qualities to advertisers than "Sometimes your ad will be shown next to a 10-page, expletive-ridden tirade about poop-knives, and no, they won't explain what it is".

Idea: Fediverse community/"subreddit" explorer (kbin.social)

A problem many have realized is that there are many /tech, /gaming etc. communities in different instances/servers. There is already https://fediverse.observer/ , so I think it wouldn't be too hard to make a service that periodically roams the fediverse, checks for example the last 100,000 submissions of each (or top 100 active...

fivezero OP ,
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Looks like r/programming discovered the astroturfing, so in true Reddit fashion they simply shut down the subreddit entirely to avoid the spread of negative public sentiment. Thanks for galvanizing my resolve to migrate to the fediverse, Spez

Bushwhack ,

To the front page you go! Upvote!

Mautobu ,

This is the equivalent post to, “don’t upvote this post.”

Tandybaum ,

Test post. Please ignore.

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