• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s like having someone who is disguised as your assistant but is actually a salesman for anyone who wants to pay them.

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    So, it’s basically just an ad delivery system now? If everyone leaves I wonder if the bots will just keep showing ads to each other?

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      I wonder how profitable it would be to create a social media platform that was nothing but bots creating contents for other bots to consume.

      New head canon: that’s actually how Skynet starts.

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    A way that those suckers still stuck in that shithole could fight against this spam from within Reddit would be hostility. Basically: if someone mentions a brand, you tell them to sod off, call them a spammer, associate the brand with dead children, etc. Then the smart move from the advertisers’ side would be to avoid being mentioned in Reddit.

    Of course the suckers won’t do it though. Any Reddit user with a shred of self-respect and willingness to fight against the sorry state of the platform already left it. Or at most interact with it passively.