A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane

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• HalfSalesman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This blog isn’t written by a bot right? Its literally a blog called “post human posting”…

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• Deez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This was great, read all of his posts and subscribed. Cheers for sharing!

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I didn’t like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it’s as if driving one’s own car is the main tenet of freedom.

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    • Deez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I read it more as just one of many subtle erosion of freedoms that could lead to a dystopian society.

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• arararagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The sequel is way funnier than this post, the people over at hackernews really take themselves too seriously lmao.

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  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can’t just leave us hanging with that ending!

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  • yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Coming up, in 2030: Anti bot verification by vtuber posting.

    Now this will require a vtuber account.

    Or how about the new captcha trend: Craft a simple barn in Arbonautica™ (game download available in Steam). You have 5 minutes.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Suspicious account with only one post is commenting a hyperlink

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    • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is largely the problem with most social media, and generative AI has made this problem worse just like it has made other pretty terrible facets of human interactions worse.

  Anyone who was paying attention on reddit the last couple years (even pre-pandemic) could see that bots were taking over. The main difference (love mods or hate them) was that mods who’s subreddits didn’t rely on bot content to stay active were moderating the bot problem as best they could.

  Now, most of those mods aren’t mods anymore and the vast majority only really want the engagement anyway so of course they’ll let bots basically take over.

  Reddit the corp never cared about keeping bots off the platform and they care even less now. Bot engagement counts. Not views of ads count. Removing bots actively hurts their bottom line in the short term so of course they aren’t going to do anything with that.

  The actual human users on Reddit don’t care because they’re there to consume. It doesn’t matter to them if the posts they engage with are made by bots or not.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they have been actively culling human users for months now, leaving mostly bots.

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• doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit is full of Karma farmers.

  I still use Reddit for the funny videos and nieche communities I don’t get on Lemmy. But I have to constantly block accounts because they are blatantly farming. Super annoying.

  I usually block every account that’s reposting and has more than 100k Karma.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meaning you’re inaane now right? Who would want to read a insane’s ramblings?

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• Lembot_0002@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least something is happening there. Look around Lemmy. No bots, no humans, no posts, no life.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hey, I might not be any of those things, but I’m here!

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  • arararagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well said, Lembot.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude Lemmy feels so much more alive. On Reddit I have like 100 comments and 0 Karma and 0 responses. No interaction at all. Every upvoted comment is just some random generic garbage farming for validation. Lemmy is SO much more live!

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.

      But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.

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  • shaggyb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why, you didn’t even post this!

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hmm, looks like you haven’t been here long. We have our share of each.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re not locked in here… door’s right there whenever

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Go scroll “All”. Find places where things are happening. Engage.

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  • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bye then. Best of luck out there, friend.

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