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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[–] alokir@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are many articles and videos on the subject of bot accounts, it's incredibly easy to hire companies that specialize in organic looking posts and comments meant to sway public opinion.

In the case of Reddit they don't even need them for their own platform, they can just run a script to generate all the comments.

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

In the Philippines, Japan, the UK, Nigeria and Russia there are these organic shitposting armies that the government of the day will hire for content creation and in some cases phishing...

Whether this actually means your economy is good or bad is anyone's guess, but the one thing you can say is that your government at least has enough money to pay people to make memes lol

I'll leave the rest to your imagination...