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 1 day agoI’d be genuinely shocked if it was less than 50%.
njordomir@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 hours 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 21 hours ago
the other 35% is russian troll farm bots.
Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Considering the research is from 2020 I think we can assume it’s gotten much worse since the.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 hours 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.