I'll admit that I've started watching youtube videos via filtering anonymisers so they really have no idea what I'm watching ¯(ツ)_/¯ makes little difference to me, probably makes a small difference to the content creators but I ain't watching no ads and I ain't giving Google tracking data
sure it can. since deleting all accounts the only reason I ever visit Reddit these days is because of search. so yeah make sure I never have a reason to come back
a question remain - while I think the requirement to engage to be counted as active will certainly increase engagement generally - will it lead to "quality" content and comments? not that I currently know exactly how you quantify quality
I think there's a greater chance of lemmy users interacting rather than just lurking because of the requirement of posting or commenting to be counted as active which should in turn help grow the community
Vampire's Kiss is the definitive Cage film