I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There's quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit's and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted...

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it's kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it's only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it's so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

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[–] FabulousCable3945@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a lot of them are chatgpt accounts approved by Reddit. Same Reason r/programming went down since many people took notice of it

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/146wn9s/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogramming_and_why/

[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funny yet sad that it's come to reddit botting their own platform to try and shore up support for themselves.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure advertisers are lining up to market to entirely scripted customers!

[–] FabulousCable3945@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

https://browsermedia.agency/blog/new-reddit-ads-products-launched/

This allows advertisers to appear in active conservations on Reddit, containing/about their chosen keywords. Advertisers can input relevant keywords, create ad copy containing those keywords and show ads to Reddit users that are interested in those terms.

actually, you couldn't be more right. That's fucking right you thought it was a fucking comment but it was actually ad by reddit

[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually now that you've brought up the idea, how would advertiser's even know that they're hitting real people when they're looking to pay money for exposure?

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think they can really know. Even if reddit provides proof that they are not doing stuff server-side they could still use regular bots with accounts. Also they need a good moderation quality to minimize third party bots.

This can harm their reputation heavily and it is almost impossible to rebuild that.

[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I've posted a comment, I think on another instance that highlights something similar

[–] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They've been botting their own platform since DAY ONE.

[–] kommanditbolag@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read some of them. The ones about "alienating users" are funny. I'm like, no shit Sherlock, that's part of the point. That's why it's effective.