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Marketers are about to infiltrate your favorite subreddits - The Verge
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this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2024
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Subreddits like r/BuyItForLife is very vulnerable to this
They specifically used r/buyitforlife as an example of how to market on Reddit. Thing is that the trustworthiness came from users and this will dilute the trust in that sub rendering it useless. I hate what they have become.
Trust will take some time to degrade though, and in the meantime they can cash in that genuine goodwill for customers to their shitty products. They don't care about destroying the community, so the community must protect itself or become useless and cease to exist.
Even without marketing it wasn't great. Someone recommended a product I had personal experience with. I The product had fallen apart after 3 years.
The users suggest products with a good name brand despite not having actually used the product for any length of time.
Their posts are all, "I just bought X and love it so it must get 'buy it for life' quality."
get them to try and move to lemmy