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Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were “automated or from bots” (www.theinformation.com)
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[–] aphonefriend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Soon to be reddit.

[–] anas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is how reddit started.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If there are already articles proclaiming that user traffic is back to normal, I'd be surprised if this wasn't already the case at Reddit. Lots of subs I've been at have had wonky traffic and subscriptions behavior that looked like bots.

Reddit sells ads. They do this by convincing advertisers that access to their traffic is worth money. They'd be crazy not to cheat their metics, if it's possible to do so.