Cambridge Analytica was well underway in 2013, now 10 years ago. People like to think that just because researchers find x on Twitter and y on Facebook - that that is the clearly documented cases - that the tactics and general psychology didn’t copy everywhere.
Cambridge Analytica is mostly famous for Facebook… but I don’t view their direct targeting of individuals to be the long-term damage. The long-term damage is that they legitimized psycological manipulation, falsehoods, as a form of winning audiences. The were Psychology/Psychiatry professionals who applied human history and experience towards making people believe false things. Like a rebirth of Dr. AA Brill from 1929 on a new scale. The legitimization of it without any ethical uprising…
Clearly people liked many aspects about how Reddit presented information, as an information system. And there has been very little positive discussion on Lemmy about the good and what to keep. It’s mostly been hate-filed expressions of “fuck spez” instead of “what worked well and why anyone cared positively in the first place”.
Reddit 2013 and earlier was very different, 2013 was the year of Cambridge Analytica engaging populations.