For anyone who still has the reddit app: Lets convert some Redditors to our side by replacint one of the fuckspez to "join-lemmy.org"
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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I think so. The fact they did this almost certainly knowing exactly what would be made makes it clear. They did this for pure engagement numbers. The saying used to be "Any publicity is good publicity", now it seems it's more like "Any engagement is good engagement".
Exactly. Pump up the site visits and hope that some visitors will even come back again once they see the other content.