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Title says it all. If you think Reddit's been trending down lately, just wait.

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[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reddit will probably appreciate the extra traffic bots will create

[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until that IPO happens and investors want an audit of bot activity vs daily active users and then it all goes south from there.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's this "from there"? It's already heading south and they haven't even had the IPO yet.

[–] Jaxom_of_Ruatha@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe, maybe not. Advertisers are definitely going to want to know how many of their impressions are actual people and how many are bots.

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

I fear your right, seems the kind of scummy I’ma god-complex type thing spez would do