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by strgrd
2954 days ago
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My impression is that SV and ycombinator types are completely unwilling, or ambivalent to this problem, and mainly because these grey market like-bots only make their platforms look more popular, and give content creators a pay-to-win process towards what appears as social media success. They gloss over points like this: "The risk of realizing that the internet is massively manipulated is that the cognitive overhead to process even the most basic interactions increases, suspicion increases, polarization potentially increases." |
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It's not a 'problem' for Instagram if it results in increased revenues from the increase engagement, even if it is from falsely inflated follower numbers, posts, comments, activity etc.
> In other words, Fuelgram creates fake engagement from real Instagram accounts. And it's quite effective. Fuelgram makes posts appear more popular than they are, tricking Instagram's algorithm into spreading them further, sometimes right into the service's high-profile Explore tab.