• thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.

    If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.

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      Which is a good argument for regulation. Regulation prevents industry from doing things that may be in their individual best interest but are against public best interests or the best interests of the industry as a whole.