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13 days agoProbably signing up with Bluesky, even if slightly off-topic. The lack of algorithms means the only way to swim up is to post everyday at prime time in the hope to catch some exposure. Because quality posts with high interactions with likes will not bubble up from the crowd.
This should be illegal. As a person who was once false flagged manually by network attribution. Of course the anti troll flagging network was itself socially destroyed by time and is frequently cause of scandals while nobody cares for me.
Add certain language patterns and political stances and you have an excellent oppressive tool.
The behavior the study is referring to, is actually result of reddit’s algorithms and human psychology. Often the contrarian view of whatever the post is about will automatically float to the top, no matter the topic, opinionated, factual or debunking, nature.