It’s a form of guerrilla advertising where they play on FOMO and try to make people jealous of someone who is “loving” the product. It’s one of the harder forms of shilling to detect because it can sound just like a regular person who actually does enjoy a specific product.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. I haven’t seen a pop up or a banner ad; but I’ve seen plenty of ads in the form of a creator trying to sell their creation and other shill stuff. Not nearly as often as on Reddit, but it’s not something you can escape from on social media.
I really hope it works out as smoothly as this, it feels like advertising sneaks it’s way in somehow though. 😣
I haven’t seen any ads thus far on lemmy and it’s pretty great.
My man, have you met our lord and saviour hypnotoad?
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I’m more worried about the advertisers sneaking in through “bragging”, like Reddit saw. 😣
Bragging? I’m not familiar with this. What does that mean in terms of advertising?
It’s a form of guerrilla advertising where they play on FOMO and try to make people jealous of someone who is “loving” the product. It’s one of the harder forms of shilling to detect because it can sound just like a regular person who actually does enjoy a specific product.
So all the Sync posts aren’t ads in disguise?
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. I haven’t seen a pop up or a banner ad; but I’ve seen plenty of ads in the form of a creator trying to sell their creation and other shill stuff. Not nearly as often as on Reddit, but it’s not something you can escape from on social media.
I’m fine with that. I just don’t want to be reminded that hellofresh exists every five minutes.
I don’t know what a sync post is either man haha
It’s not and I’m Lovin’ It. The Fediverse I mean. Want to defederate from corporate ads? Just Do It. Have It Your Way and Make Every Second Count.
Really, you just need to Think Different.
Where is c/angryupvote
This is the most beautifully crafted comment I’ve read all day. Bravo!