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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the early days of Reddit it's motto was fake it until you make it. It was a ghost town so they set up an army of bots to generate content and fake activity. Not much has changed tbh.

It's just now scam artists and annoying people who have taken over the bot market

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

The subreddit simulator must date from the late stages of that era