Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And people are getting wise to traffic numbers being inflated by bots.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a moderator of a fairly large sub over there, I strongly suspect this is happening on a mass scale. According to our stats, we’re getting 120k unique views a month (dropped dramtically during the exodus, but has seemingly returned to normal now), but posts rarely get more than 20 upvotes or comments. I know most redditers are lurkers, but even still, that just seems like an oddly high number.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Give it time. Eventually the AI with learn to completely mimic human activity. Just not their actual spending habits.

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• doctorcrimson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In fact, they’ve already failed their quarterly projections from ad revenue which has already negatively affected their IPO evaluation.

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