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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by j45 on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:56AM (#38038460)
To me there’s a difference between better content and engaging content.

Better content seeks quality connections that may scale so far.

Engaging content seeks quantity of connections.

Of course this could be further argued. Maybe the better and engagement is interpreted to mean too distribution in quantity focused.

Edit:typo

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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by coffeebeqn on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:10AM (#38038647)
Everyone is getting paid by the number of impressions - not the quality of them. With incentives like this..
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by j45 on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:21AM (#38038802)
Depending on the platform it can be other things too.

View time, remaining on platform, etc.

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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by nullindividual on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:32AM (#38038953)
What [ad] platform pays on anything but clicks?
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by Kye on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:36AM (#38039922)
There's CPM (cost per mille [thousand]) and CPA (cost per action) too.
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by j45 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:51PM (#38053729)
Cost per conversion is another one too. Technically an action too. :)
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by Kye on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:28AM (#38039789)
Blog posts remain a holdout on the relation between quality and connection count. In this link-wary modern web, every link counts.
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