Comment on Reddit global rank is going down
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Globally, but in the US they’re #2. They’re behind Facebook for those kind of sites. They’re right behind Amazon.com at #5 for popular sites overall. Kind of freaky. It must be masked bots for both reddit and facebook, it can’t be real users if you’ve seen the most popular pages.
fonix232@fedia.io 2 days ago
Of course it ain't real users.
Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.
I've moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you'd get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder...
Reddit's response to the issue? "Hey, why don't you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?".
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They made it more difficult for community to spot bots. Now anyone can hide their profile post/comment history. By design!
Real! I once saw a post in some sub where mods were complaining about bot/AI problems lately. In comments there was a guy who said he is moderating a very niche sub about toyota trucks with a few thousands of users. He said that half of the posts in a day feature AI generated pictures of these cars. Can’t be real people posting it. I wonder what really happens in bigger subs.