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How is this news?
We should coordinate the destruction of reddit with garbage content so the AI is trained with more useless slop
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Submitted 5 months ago by theHRguy@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 5 months ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How is this news?
yeah and 15% seems… a low estimate for reddit
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
I was in a thread about vacuum recommendations and three bot accounts had a problem with me calling Dysons loud.
PokerChips@programming.dev 5 months ago
I think I remember that lol. Not your comment specifically but something seemed fishy about that thread.
The carnivore crowd is pretty unhinged too
Shaper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BREAKING scientists discover what everybody else already knew, still call it discovery
Mechaguana@programming.dev 5 months ago
Wrong. We might know, but its important to leave a study or articles behind about this phenomenon that is considerated as trustworthy. The masses will never look at your posts or comments, but will look at articles like theses.
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Scientists didn’t discover anything. The author does not link to a study backing his claims but only to one tangentially related to his article.
Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
r/Canada and Postmedia
Been happening for years.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
r/ any location, country, city, county, province has been taken over by tankies(for that specific area), conservatives, and goody two shoes people.
kreskin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How does one become a corporate troll?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Probably by getting hired in a companies marketing department. Realistically these astroturfing campaigns are either farms of accounts managed by ad agencies to push whatever they’re getting paid to push at the moment, or smaller campaigns run by individual companies marketing departments, and not just random people getting paid to mention specific products on their personal accounts
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sell your soul and go into digital marketing.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 months ago
Yep. Every company I’ve worked at had a marketing team with a social media team.
And social media isn’t just fucking around on Twitter posting food pics. It also making a dozen fake accounts to share how your company is way better than this other company. Or write bad reviews about your competitors. Or shit on people who like a particular product while boosting yours.
Oh is that against the law? Only if it’s enforced. Which impossible.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Its way higher than 15%
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Or lower. The linked study does not contain any of the statistical claims of the article.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“The sun is at least 3 days old.”
Noja@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I only believe peoples product recommendations when they have furry porn in their post history
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
That little? I would have thought it was much, much higher. Almost everything on every social media sites is marketing barely in disguise.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 months ago
New Study
Study is from 2018 lol
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
And it doesn’t even contain the words ‘15’, ‘fifteen’ or ‘reddit’. The author is probably citing ChatGpt.
ReHomed@lemmy.cafe 5 months ago
I was gonna say, I’ve been on Reddit for quite a bit, and it feels like SO MUCH SHIT is astroturfed
If we were to update the stats, it’s gotta be like 50%
aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That explains why the number is so low.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
That might explain why so many comments in this post on edible packaging didn’t reject the idea as defeating the purpose of packaging & were even suggesting wrapping the packaging in packaging to keep it contaminant-free.
DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BULLSHIT. It’s closer to 50% and the admins have been purchased by GOP billionaires. Fuck that platform and those limp dick admins. I hope that when the revolution kicks off they don’t forget about those SF basement pussies.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
When you’re thinking 50%, you’re thinking about the content you actually see. But you likely don’t see more than 5% of reddit’s content - the stuff that goes on in all the smaller subreddits.
15% of the whole site is an absurdly high number.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, 50% is “at least 15%”.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
How dare you read the article.
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 5 months ago
On a thread about healthcare today, I watched my comment against the insurance industry get 100% upvoted two dozen times in a couple minutes and then suddenly freeze and only accept downvotes while I was immediately engaged by somebody calling me a soft brain. I then called that out and predicted an incoming [Removed by Moderator] which of course happened like five minutes later.
We’re really mean to believe that the site magically changed to a conservative corporate glazing community in such a short time? Yeah, bullshit.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’ve simulated reddit here
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
removed by god
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
removed by big pharma
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
removed by big brother
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
removed by u/spez
ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Keep in mind it may not strictly be content posting, but also vote manipulation. If you have a message you want to push, you can just upvote favorable messages to try to make whatever agenda seem a lot bigger than it really is.
IllNess@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I don’t know how true this is but I read on reddit that when Russia’s internet went down, r/conservative activity decreased by 75%.
TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I believe it. So many posts from Reddit read like they’re fake in a patronizing way, like they want to twist my opinion.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Most noticeable when it comes to stopkillinggames threads where you’ll see comments of people being angry at the movement and misrepresenting it wanting to force games to have to stay online indefinitely.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’d say most of “askreddit” is buzzfeed staff looking for article material.
Chessmasterrex@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Negative karma baby accounts to me are a red flag.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Generally speaking, I don’t check the age/gross karma on an account unless I’m suspicious. And by then… plenty of older accounts with lots of karma are HailCorporate to the gills. Nevermind the mods.
I just can’t take anything on that site seriously
BanMe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And 100% of Reddit management thinks that’s great
sefra1@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit had a secret API for facilitating the creation and management of corporate bots.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
There are third party services to handle that and some have been operating for a long time… with no action coming from reddit.
There have also been rumors of special directives to help maintain corporate presence on subreddits/etc. Things like upvote/downvote fudging on AMAs and other items focusing on areas with lots of business visibility.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Even if reddit doesn’t provide it themselves, the service exists.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I figured the % would be significantly higher, like 40% at this rate.
dil@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
These are just ppl paid to do it as a 9-5
Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
To be fair the linked study does not make that claim nor is it even about reddit.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“At least” is doing some heavy lifting
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
It’s of all content, so including porn. “What product should I buy for under £xx” posts are going to be far higher.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Emphasis on “at least”.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fair point… it’s a very conservative floor number though lol. Doing some heavy lifting on the wording.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They be trying on here as well. Bots and obvious people working for a government to push a narrative.
Naich@lemmings.world 5 months ago
/r/hailcorporate was underestimating it if anything.
atmorous@lemmy.world 5 months ago
To think if we did not have some alternatives to those legacy media apps it would be a lot worse
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But what % of overall traffic do these bots make up?
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
and what, you think lemmy doesn’t have trolls for lefties?
Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hidden post and comment history is the worst thing Reddit has done. It allows much more of it than was noticed in the 5 year old study
Krudler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Skittles. It’s the perfect example of a corporate advertising campaign that has been run out in the open in front of people, and no one can see it. From like “day one” on Reddit.
Burger King has a huge presence, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, so many others.
Kagi has been running a stealth spam campaign here on Lemmy for over a year.
MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Duh
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, our government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.
BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is fairly harmless compared to the government trolls. Pretty much every Canada related subreddit has been dealing with a slurry of xenophobic posts from brand new accounts with hidden post history. The better subreddits quickly ban or lock them but several let them go as they reinforce the moderator’s own worldview. Not even the Costco Canada subreddit is safe.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Every day I’m so much more thankful for Lemmy existing. Joining the exodus when third-party reddit apps died has been great for my overall online experience. Lemmy may not have the traffic that reddit does, but the quality of posts here and the community makes up for that.
I love encountering people I recognize in random posts. Found some comments about my horse in a post on a community separate from the one I post pics of her in and the post had nothing to do with her. Made me feel really happy to stumble across that. You can’t get that kinda wholesome shit with reddit.