• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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      100%. Reddit loves bots that they control, like the ones that go back and constantly re-post years old top rated, traffic driving content, complete with a replica of the entire comment section posted by hundreds/thousands of bots, because they can use it to do their bidding in pushing agendas and/or driving traffic/engagement.

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    I don’t believe that for 1 millisecond.

    Spez won’t be able to stop himself from enshitifying reddit in any way he can to appease those VC pump&dump scammers he’s spent the last decade ruining reddit for.

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    I always get ‘Blocked by Network security’ for trying to access Reddit from a VPN

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    What and destroy 90% of their traffic?!?

    “That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.”

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    Yeah it’s definitely the bots and not the fashy admins that drove me away from reddit.

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        I got banned from reddit for a few days once because I posted something similar. Was told I was threatening violence. Lol

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          Like a war on terrorism, that then fights domestic terrorists, that then protects Tesla; any new power will inevitably be abused. Snowden taught us that a long time ago.

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      Everyone has their own reasons. If you disagree with their management, then you should celebrate other people choosing to leave, even if for different reasons than your own.

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        I’m not complaining about people leaving, just saying the bots are not the biggest problem.

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      I mean the bots don’t help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There’s like 6 prominent “Am I the Assholes”, a bunch of text message “screenshot” subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of “explain the joke” ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it’s obviously AI

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          I made a lemmy post about it but I theorize they’re crowdsourced AI training. Post something, post a couple of separate AI interpretations of it, then analyze the highest up voted AI and “organic” responses, and feed that back into the model. Rinse/repeat

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        That’s fair, it just seems like that if they’re going down the list of problems looking for things they can do to make reddit a better place, it doesn’t make sense to not start at the top.

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    *reddit will tag their own chatgpt bots to prevent them from being banned, and then through false positives will ban the last of the real users from the site.

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      i bet they also ignore half of the propaganda bots to look fair in thier moderations. the only signicant bannings we see is actual users, and the low hanging fruits, of and people posting links to thier businesses.

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      Someone could create a forum for bots to discuss with each other. Call it Redbit. The bot could generate every possible questuon to ask and even steal questions from quora, reddit, Xitter, and every other forum, various AI bots can then reply to those questions with the best replies.

      It can help put reddit out of business. Since most people are just looking for answers when they search google and get a reddit hit, most people don’t even bother to sign for reddit and etc.

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      Today one said they brought shame to their family line by having a giant tattoo on their wrist of an ex (who was actually dead). Boyfriend just now noticed said tattoo after a year. Picture looked like every letter of the tattoo was in a random healing stage and they were standing on a tire with a random toe censored.

      It’s bad over there.

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    This has nothing to do with bots. Verification comes with more info provided on your part, which they will sell.

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      And they’ll be able to hand over to the government on demand when you say something the government doesn’t like. They started all this during the previous administration, when the government were pressuring all social media companies to push their agenda and censor things they didn’t like. X changed course, Facebook has now changed course, but Reddit is staying the course and will do whatever the government of the day tells them to.

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      I got ecchi dolls (China knockoff, cheaper but decent) from a site called OtakuCrate once, they’ve emailed me to confirm that the R18 loot is back under new US regulations, which means future orders just require your legal identification. I live in Europe, so there’s no damn way I’m conforming to any privacy-invasive law, and I’m also not stupid.

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      It can be both. Reddit has a history of fabricating conversations. The way they sell advertising implies a certain level of engagement from their user base which can lead to bots pushing products in the form of reviews or by mention.

      I think it’s worth noting that Reddit, at one time, did have third party bot protection; however, it only protected their advertising. I can only imagine what the rest of their traffic looks like, but I would not be surprised if they were using bots of their own.

      Like you said, they can make some money selling your information but they can also control the narrative how they choose.

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    It’s already happening, I see I opened accounts but none of my comment gets posted with accounts I don’t know why , this is with new accounts

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      sounds like you got shadowbanned, you can check your username, by not logging in and click your profile.

      it usually says “cannot find profile” on a browser, which means shadowbanned.

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      Same happened to me, all my old accounts which I had for years got banned for no reason and new accounts gets banned as soon as I comment.

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        Your IP address/device fingerprint has been blacklisted. They do daily (possibly a few times throughout the day) automated bans of any accounts that visit the site from IPs of users they have banned. Commenting automatically triggers an IP check so you’re banned instantly, but if you didn’t even comment your account would be banned by the end of the day.

        I tested this after I wiped and deleted my accounts back when they made all the API changes. They undeleted my account, undeleted all of my posts, and then permanently banned my account. I then signed in to one of my alt accounts that has never commented to see if they had banned it, and they hadn’t - until a few hours later when it was permanently banned for “ban evasion”. I created a new account to see what would happen - same thing. I then turned on the built in VPN on a browser and set it to always be active when on reddits domain and made a new account, and that account to this day is still not banned.