Not ALL bots are Reddit-made. Sure, many are, but there’s a growing interest by many states to increase their influence of social media.
Tons of Russian/Chinese bots pushing the tankie agenda for example, tons of bots pushing right-wing psy-ops and lies, lots of companies trying to push their own angles as well… and given the number of people who’ve left Reddit since, and who’ve been kicked off the platform, I’d say a majority ARE bots.
I wish I could go back in time and tell my boomer family members to keep using email instead of Facebook. They were right and we were wrong. Now they’re the only reason I still have a Facebook account.
Surely some of this is bots but… I have a hard time believing it is all of them. So much for the API protests in 2023… 😞
It most likely is.
Not ALL bots are Reddit-made. Sure, many are, but there’s a growing interest by many states to increase their influence of social media.
Tons of Russian/Chinese bots pushing the tankie agenda for example, tons of bots pushing right-wing psy-ops and lies, lots of companies trying to push their own angles as well… and given the number of people who’ve left Reddit since, and who’ve been kicked off the platform, I’d say a majority ARE bots.
the main content creators and initial users have probably left.
I went back to Facebook recently, a very different and dire sight to back in it’s hay days
I wish I could go back in time and tell my boomer family members to keep using email instead of Facebook. They were right and we were wrong. Now they’re the only reason I still have a Facebook account.