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Reddit Migration

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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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

I haven’t heard about that (being originally populated by bots) but I would love to read something about it if you know of anything.

[–] fivezero@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

“Huffman […] together with Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005. Embarrassed by an empty-looking site, the founders created hundreds of fake users for their posts to make it look more populated” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History