greencactus ,

Thank you. That is the day when I'll finally stop using Reddit. I never have thought that bots write that realistically, so thank you for proving it.

meowMix2525 ,

Well they actually don't write that realistically, these are copy and paste bots that are just trying to farm karma so they can later sell the account (which I've heard is a thing apparently?). You can see the left is all original accounts by the uniqueness of their usernames and the copied posts on the right are all reddit generated names.

solstice ,

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

brax ,

What if find absolutely wild is how their stock didn't just flop. The site has been on a downward spiral since the first redesign, and with the cut to API they've basically entered a freefall. I could seen people backing Reddit like 14 years ago, but now? Why?

I suppose if there's any optimism to have in OP's post it's that the bots are at least propagating messaging that's better for the greater good than the typical shit that's trying to get us into a full dystopia.

ArtVandelay ,
@ArtVandelay@lemmy.world avatar

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

KillingTimeItself ,

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

DestroyMegacorps ,

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

RobinRoswell ,

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

blanketswithsmallpox ,

It's a good thing Lemmy isn't popular enough to have bots and propagandists posting here with less moderation than Reddit...

...Right?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I don't think there's a single bot on LemSTACK OVERFLOW ERROR PLEASE RESTART APPLICATION TO CONTINUE.

iterable ,
@iterable@sh.itjust.works avatar

Not just Reddit every website I go to now I see this. Even on official game forums like World of Warcraft. Using to promote content or advertise in a way that tries to be organic.

tacosplease ,

My favorite are the YouTube comments saying to follow Jesus or whatever regardless of the actual content of the video. Who is that even for? LOL

Veraxus ,

Clearly, the algorithm thinks you need Jesus.

irreticent ,
@irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

It has seen your search history and is worried for your soul.

DanTDM ,

Thank god this isn't a problem here

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PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ,

hey...

There's no pussy in your bio...

😡

p03locke ,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Just keep clicking. You'll get to the malware eventually.

Pacrat173 ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I didn’t believe this when I first heard about it but it’s looking more true everyday

DahGangalang ,

Yeah, even if we're not quite "there" yet, it feels like we're at least moving in that direction

Turious ,

Been happening a lot longer than you imagine. I stopped using Reddit when the third party apps got shut down. At least the last year of my time there was calling out repost bot accounts. Threads like that on smaller subs with week moderation were really common.

Even on some better moderated subs, they got through.

Reddit died for me a long time ago.

BadmanDan ,

Reddit perma banned for criticizing Israel

Shyfer ,

This is incredible. Like, it was always obvious from a gut feeling or seeing comments reposted in the exact same thread, but this makes it even more obvious.

TigrisMorte ,

They lost so many users they needed the "engagement" numbers for the IPO so they opened the flood gate. Now they are stuck with an issue they can't fix without admitting the fraud.

Bonehead ,

Give them some credit. They've finally changed the user name generator to random words instead of Adjective_Noun_####.

Carighan ,
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That's why you ignore all comments from usernames that are like the default ones. Has been that way for a long time, tbh.

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