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My uninformed impression is that Tumblr users were relatively unique in how freely they mixed pornography consumption and non porno. There are some Twitter user
by kevinmchugh 4y ago
My uninformed impression is that Tumblr users were relatively unique in how freely they mixed pornography consumption and non porno. There are some Twitter users who do this, but Twitter is public enough that most people are wary of doing that or get caught by follows, likes being public. My anecdotal experience is that I don't see porno comments or submissions from most reddit users either, but that's obviously skewed by the reddits I'm in.
I also know that Tumblr has norms against "horny on main", so maybe Tumblr users were very diligent about using alts and the other sites make that too frictional
- pclmulqdq 4y agoPeople on Reddit will often have an alt account for porn. I have seen people say things like "oops, posted from my nsfw account" plenty of times before. I assume Twitter is the same. Both platforms freely give out plenty of accounts.
- jacooper 4y agoYou sure? Twitter is notoriously known for asking for users phone number in every account, its practically impossible to have an active account without adding your phone number.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoI don't know about you, but I personally have 5 Twitter accounts and 20+ Reddit accounts (sometimes you want to have different perspectives on an issue, have different front pages, or maybe manufacture a consensus). Only the main Twitter account has been asked for a phone number - I think they actually know about alt accounts and don't mind you having them as long as you don't do anything crazy with them. Don't worry dang, this is my only HN account.
- riffraff 4y agoI had a dozen Twitter accounts, but they were made in a different era, nowadays they make it harder to sign up without a phone number tho you can still add bot secondary accounts to the main one.
- cfiggers 4y ago"Manufacture a consensus"?
- seszett 4y agoA SFW way to say "manipulate opinion", I guess.
- stametseater 4y agoI think it's a adaptation of "Manufacturing Consent", to sound less rapey. But yes, it's a euphemism for manipulating other people's opinions.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoIt's pretty common to use alt accounts to upvote and comment on your own posts - I used to do this when I cared. Some people take it really far and have their alts also repost their content to get multiple shots to "go viral." Some people also make down vote networks to silence comments they don't like. Recently, I have used these accounts to get answers to questions: post the question with one account and ~3 bad but assertive answers with other accounts, and that's usually enough to get at least one response from someone who knows the right answer and wants to prove they are smart. All of this can now be done very easily by ChatGPT, too - it used to take effort. This is the "dark" part of social media marketing that nobody talks about but a lot of people engage in.
- saagarjha 4y agoWhy do you do it?
- tallanvor 4y agoIt's common among trolls, not among the vast majority of users.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoNot just trolls, there is a giant incentive for marketers (or even just TikTok-ers) looking to make something visible. Tons of accounts reposting content from ~2 months ago to create a long, legitimate-looking post history and high karma score. They then use those accounts to complain about Product X or love Product Y -- and they don't look like a shillbot. Ditto for political actors, propagandists, et al.
- munchler 4y ago> maybe manufacture a consensus You're running a one-person troll farm? Please reconsider your choices in life.
- mjr00 4y agoNot that I'm defending the practice (and certainly don't have enough skin in the social media game to do it myself), but it is extremely common to have alts upvote/repost each other on social networks, or downvote brigade someone when you're losing an internet argument.
- AndrewPGameDev 4y agoI doubt that even 1% of people using Reddit are using alts to upvote themselves or downvote brigade others. If you have any data to the contrary I'd be happy to hear it.
- oblio 4y agoIt's still a solid sign of a sad life. Or a small business, but I wonder how much money there is in that.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> Or a small business, but I wonder how much money there is in that. They call it "hustling" and "growth hacking", and I suppose there might be good ROI on this when you're just starting up and trying to do some "organic advertising" in a niche community/subreddit. Those couple extra upvotes may be the difference between drowning unnoticed vs. staying on the front page long enough to gather initial interest, and spark a discussion that keeps it up for a day or more. I still believe it's unethical behavior, though.
- stametseater 4y agoFor some values of "extremely common", because I'm pretty sure most people don't have the patience and energy to do bullshit like that. But a small fraction of people do it a lot.
- zen_1 4y agoWith twitter I've found emailing support to verify you're a human has a decent success rate (and without sharing any PII)
- norswap 4y agoTwitter literally lets you log in to multiple accounts from the same session. You can reuse the same emails & phone numbers too. So contrary to what you say, the practice of having "alts" is pretty much encouraged.
- alexiaa 4y agoTheir help page technically says you can use the same phone number on up to 10 accounts, but that hasn't been the case in 4–5 years or more. It's more like 2–4 accounts per number allowed in my experience, and there is a few week cooldown on reusing a number even if you've already removed it from all accounts. I don't think you can use the same email on multiple accounts at the same time, but using address extensions or creating new emails is easy.
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