Turning Crazy Clickbait into Momentum - Like Xitter but 20% less pozz

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Premise 1: We’ve seen platforms use techniques such as ragebait and hot (retard often libshit lenient takes) notorious for sensationalist interviews that might even extend to controversial figures, such as individuals with a reprehensible history but that drives eyeballs and clicks on articles, to grab attention and fuel engagement.

Premise 2: There are outlets out there that are undoubtedly better for a journalist ecosystem that isn't driven by sugardaddy USAids money. The one that always comes to mind is Substack and Medium. There are also more formal ones that let people have wiggleroom for memes, opinions and even other hobbies like minds.com (and very partially/tangentially a bunch of fediverse instances)

Now I wanna ask, whether the raw energy and polarized discussions generated by such tactics can be harnessed productively for OUR communities. Could these very methods be repurposed to advance meaningful debate and innovation within the FOSSchizos? How might we recalibrate the shock value that drives these clickbait platforms into a force for thoughtful discourse and community building? Could and/or should we use Yellow journalism, ragebait/hot takes and click-bait like tactics to drive more people into these spaces? These news orgs and social media pages already exist anyway, why not might as well just take their audience and move them into a more productive / less pozzed by design space?

 

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Could and/or should we use Yellow journalism, ragebait/hot takes and click-bait like tactics to drive more people into these spaces? These news orgs and social media pages already exist anyway, why not might as well just take their audience and move them into a more productive / less pozzed by design space?

If you want to infect that place, go ahead.

Here? They'd get eventually banned, but if they come in massive numbers, then Null would have to complain about the shift of "culture" within the website, again, in a message that will be showred in Feels & Drink stickers.

I mean, that is kind of done in Kiwifarms already (troll shit baits), but with Kiwifarmers themselves, not a new audience.

 

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If you want to infect that place, go ahead.

Here? They'd get eventually banned, but if they come in massive numbers, then Null would have to complain about the shift of "culture" within the website, again, in a message that will be showred in Feels & Drink stickers.

I mean, that is kind of done in Kiwifarms already (troll shit baits), but with Kiwifarmers themselves, not a new audience.

Not necessarily here but in more user driven places where you can make more freely your own threads or user accounts or whatever like in Minds or fediverse instances where the staff wouldn't get the blame for this kind of shit? I think is a viable tactic. I say we bring people like Vaush into one of these to spill his heart out about wanting to be a horse with a 10 inch cock fucking lolitas and let people have at it with engagement.