I wouldn’t be shocked if it was only 15% that isn’t corporate swill. Even the reasonable sounding comments can just be a bot karma farming by reposting previously popular stuff. At it’s peak, Reddit was a chaotic bazaar of experts and wannabees building actual good communities. You could find the kind of researched, in-depth info no Google search would ever unearth again. Now Reddit is clearly riding in the same boat as MySpace and others, just in it’s own stupid extra-Spezy way.
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db2@lemmy.world 2 months agoI’d be genuinely shocked if it was less than 50%.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
wonder how much of the bots are OF spammers, or link farmers. i know they use a ton of accounts to spam, after they mostly warmed up those accounts, i was on another forum how they were doing it to earn money. the propaganda bot farms dont care about evading reddits filter, so they spam, dump the account and create a new one, rinse and repeat.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
the other 35% is russian troll farm bots.
Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
2018, is when massive uptick of russian misinformation, and astroturfing began on the politics, subs. one of my now old defunct deleted accounts recieved the first bans there.