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I want to confirm if I'm parsing this sentence correctly. It's probably the
difficulty of not having commas to break it up.

> 好きになってもらいたいならまず人を好きになる

Loosely, I'm translating this as

> "If you want someone to like you, you should first like them."

I.e.

> 好きになってもらいたいなら - If wanting to receive someone's liking
>
> まず人を好きになる - First like people.

Also it's not clear if 好き in this context is more of a generally being liked
by people vs a liked by a single person?

> "If you want people to like you, like others first"

Thanks!
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Breaking down the clauses in "好きになってもらいたいならまず人を好きになる"
Your basic understanding of the sentence is fine.

> it's not clear if 好き in this context is more of a generally being liked by
> people vs a liked by a single person?

As for the first half of the sentence, it depends, because the sentence says
nothing about who you want to be liked by. In other words, the sentence can
mean "If you want him/her to like you...", "If you want someone to like
you..." or "If you want people to like you" depending on the context. As for
the latter half of the sentence, 人 in this context refers to unspecific
"people" or "others" in general. It should be その人 (" _that_ person") if it
referred to a particular person.
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"If you want to be liked, then first you (should) like people".

I think it's a general "being liked by people" because that's the default in
this case, as far as my understanding goes.

If it was talking about a specific person, it would say some thing like 「まず
**あの** 人を好きになる」but that's not what it says.
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