I know Reddit now has a stupid rule or policy about new accounts posting or commenting. They punish new users for just trying to have a conversation. Why does Reddit hate privacy? Is it just in the system trying to filter out bots? Well, it is doing a shitty job since bots are still a high percentage there. Reddit banned me, even when I was on the new user friendly subs. I tried with multiple locations with a VPN too. This has to make people go to other platforms. Like I did, I moved here.

        • cattywampus@lemmy.world
          10·
          21 hours ago

          It’s big business. Pretty much every social network got its start with bots, major creators and influencers used artificial engagement to get their start, websites use tons of artificial traffic to rank higher on search results.

          The other tactic is using a traditional bot net aka a hacker infects as many machines as possible essentially just to use them as a click farm.

          It’s a whole grey or black market.

      • TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club
        8·
        21 hours ago

        The majority of traffic on reddit is bots. Its scary that its getting harder to tell. They’re probably sticking AI chat bots in there too.

          • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            I assume over 50% of users on there are bots.

            Me too. And in the political subs, I’ve read estimates it’s more like 80-90%. Tho it’s impossible to know for sure what the % is.

            I don’t know what would stop lemmy from the same fate or worse. Just a matter of time.