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> all on your profile, not for public engagement farming. The spammers, the SEO farmers, the porn merchants won't care. A link is a link. I've been tackling

• eastbound 2y ago
  The opposite of spam is machine-generated content. All platforms have it, at least to pretend the platform is not empty at the beginning.
  • hk__2 2y ago
    > The opposite of spam is machine-generated content. Spam is not machine-generated content?
    • Fuzzwah 2y ago
      You might be interested in my next start-up; hand crafted, bespoke and artisanal spam as a service.
• fakedang 2y ago
  I think you got it wrong. There isn't a feed that people can see when they log in. There's just profile pages, like walls on Facebook. Someone can see your content if they go to your wall, but they won't be fed your content. At least that's what I think this concept is. If it is so, I don't see the problem with that. Sure, you'll have the fake-happy and fake-positive content, but they'll not be force fed to you.
• hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
  Yes, he will get hit. At the same time, it's not at all the same problem as algorithmic engagement. If someone puts up a spam page that I never see, I don't care that much. There are also some technical things he can do to reduce e.g. the SEO value of any content that is posted on the site like nofollow.
  • what 2y ago
    >nofollow Most links are nofollow these days. Those still provide SEO value. Google will find your site very suspicious if your dofollow to nofollow ratio is too high.