I just noticed this when I saw a strange “Achievement Unlocked” notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a month.

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It’s to keep you feeding their site with data/posts/comments

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They are getting desperate

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No, Reddit is going fine. But they want to do better. So they make up stuff like this and it will work.

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True, but they are still desperate for money, that’s all it’s about now.

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They have all their bots creating first-class content. They don’t even need mods anymore. They don’t need humans anymore. They are basically a self-sufficient bot word factory and AI breeding ground. Like, if I ever felt the urge to rate babes with my masterful babe-rating skills or use my excellent human-judging skills to discern whether the repost-bot is the asshole in that regurgitated story, I’d go there in a heartbeat.

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For real with how good Lemmy apps have gotten

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Makes it tempting to start logging in again and making daily comments consisting of nothing but random punctuation marks.

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commonting daily about lemmy, and posting the streak, only to people see the lemmy comments in every post

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If you really need, you could farm like how bot accounts build up karma. Just use a private subreddit so your system gaming is out of the public eye.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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addiction mechanics lol. fuck reddit.

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