Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months agoLet’s be honest here. Reddit had been astroturfed for over a decade, and a majority of posts that spoke favourably of products were ads.
The only value Reddit had in that regard is through Google surfacing the valuable discussions and content (e.g. the ones that weren’t the ads).
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reddit from the beginning had bot accounts to artificially inflate its user account.