yes, and PALINTIR is active on reddit using propaganda bots, along side the russian and MOSSAD ones.
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EvilBit@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Is Homeland Security chasing bots? Because that’s the bottiest name I’ve ever seen. If so, please continue. 🍿
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
hector@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
I don’t disbelieve it, do you recall where you read that?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I had a similar names. I didn’t care about “expressing myself” and didn’t want you link it to myself in any way, so every time I would just accept the random gibberish reddit suggests when creating a new account.
JayGray91@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Yeah now I’m kind of worried about my pseudonym. This isn’t my first pseudonym mind you, and it won’t be the last, but this is the most “well known” around my internet friends.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Reddit suggested usernames are always dumb shit like that.
otter@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I find it odd, but a lot of newer users on Reddit go with the default suggested username and those follow the
word-word-0000template.At the same time, it might be better for privacy to do that since it’s less likely that someone can track you across platforms if you use the generator built into each platform.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Fair enough. Maybe I’m too old for the internet.
alaphic@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Maybe the internet truly is… No Country for Old Men…
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JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 hours ago
I think the current flow for Reddit account creation is they give you the auto generated username and you have to change it when you’re done creating the account. You don’t get to set it during creation. So because it’s an extra step I think some people don’t. (Though I may be misremembering. It’s been years since I used it.)
dan@upvote.au 11 hours ago
I see it a lot, too. Reddit’s been around for 20 years, so all the good usernames are already taken.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Its been a long time since you could build relationships with other users in places like Reddit. The usernames don’t matter anymore so you may as well just use randoms.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
it has been flooded with bots since '16, when russia got involved with reddit through propaganda. so people are quite suspicious around other users, accusing them bots.
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
How can lemmy avoid that fate, if it ever gets really popular?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
thats how they mass-create bot accounts, just create a large number without carefully making one that reddit wont immediately ban you on.