Am I crazy or did the number of bots and ‘new users’ ramp up quite a bit around the protest also? Moderation was basically not existent, I would see obvious bots and trolls stay around when they would have been banned in no time before. I find it hard to trust any data on Reddit.
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PlantObserver@lemmy.world 5 months agoI wonder if thats because most of the traffic was just bots all along who obviously aren’t going to leave in protest
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Possible_EmuWrangler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If I remember right, there was a spam detector bot or similar which I’m sure was third party and it either went off altogether or the project was suspended after accessing the API was going to come in.
Jordan117@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same as it ever was.