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  • I hope we don't get astroturfed to hell and back. I'm personally awful at detecting astroturfing and AI online as opposed to a real human, but I hear it has become a problem on Reddit. And it's nice to hear other humans' opinions on products you may be looking to buy to see if the advertising and promises actually hold up, especially if it's something expensive that your social circle doesn't usually buy.

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    [META] Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content.
  • Worth mentioning that if you have put in the work to have lots of posts, it might still show as very few, maybe 0–1 posts to people if they are viewing the community from another instance. Posts from other instances do not federate over to yours unless someone on your instance subscribed to it. And if all the users subscribing on your instance unsubscribe, then you will not get any more posts from it federating over until someone subscribes again. So a community that follows this advice can appear as if they did not put in the work when they really did. To get around this problem, view the community from the instance it is hosted on (e.g. view community@lemmy.zip on lemmy.zip, not through lemmy.world/c/community@lemmy.zip).

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