• TigrisMorte@kbin.social
    3·
    8 months ago

    They lost so many users they needed the “engagement” numbers for the IPO so they opened the flood gate. Now they are stuck with an issue they can’t fix without admitting the fraud.

  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 months ago

    I remember when the narwhal used to bacon only at midnight.

    Now the narwhal is forced to bacon continuously.

    This kills the narwhal.

  • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
    31·
    8 months ago

    My understanding of how this works is that that left one is real accounts making real comments, at least in the majority.

    Then when the link gets reposted, either by a bot or naturally, potentially depending on the title, the bots scrape the old comments and post them.

    It’s content farming. And Reddit is probably okay with this.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 months ago

    Just paid a visit. It’s really gotten bad. Horrible titles that make little sense. People falling over each other to make tired quips instead of conversation, and the rest to point out how someone is wrong or one-up the commenter.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        IMO it’s gotten markedly worse since the 3rd party app debacle. Perhaps combined with the advent of AI added to bots has made it obvious. Yeah, it’s been on a decline for quite a bit with the repost bots repeating everything from posts to replies, but people would call them out. Now it’s like it’s bots all the way down or the remaining participants have resigned themselves to the decline.

        Small subs still seem mostly safe, but anything with decent participation is pretty bad.

      • Rivers@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        Reddit went to shit when the zoomers flooded in, arguably the late 90’s kids aswell

  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
    1·
    8 months ago

    We use manual approval for programming.dev accounts where there is a very simple instruction you must follow to be approved. The amount of spam that fails that test makes me concerned about the amount of bots from instances without any barriers for account creation.

    What happens on reddit (in regards to spam) will inevitably finds its way to ActivityPub link aggregators like lemmy.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    Reposts has always been a major issue on reddit, there are an infamous moderator who would delete posts with traction and repost it himself for karma.

    Using bots to duplicate comments on reposts is a new low though.

  • greencactus@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 months ago

    Thank you. That is the day when I’ll finally stop using Reddit. I never have thought that bots write that realistically, so thank you for proving it.

    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
      1·
      8 months ago

      Well they actually don’t write that realistically, these are copy and paste bots that are just trying to farm karma so they can later sell the account (which I’ve heard is a thing apparently?). You can see the left is all original accounts by the uniqueness of their usernames and the copied posts on the right are all reddit generated names.

  • force@lemmy.world
    0·
    8 months ago

    Never trust a default username

    [adjective] [noun] [3-4 digits] is always a sign of bad news, on social media and Xbox Live

    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      Cutesy auto generated names are too useful for bots, the lazy, and fans of cutesy name combos.

      Should have made defaults your approximate IP geolocation. I’m kidding of course for privacy reasons, but a little similar motivation to think about a better name during creation couldn’t hurt (looking at Reddit here).

      Edit: but hey - maybe it’s not desirable for one to be able to distinguish users. I wonder… nah, Reddit would never… 😒

  • Bonehead@kbin.social
    0·
    8 months ago

    Give them some credit. They’ve finally changed the user name generator to random words instead of Adjective_Noun_####.