I’ve been seeing that a lot of Reddit communities are getting banned if they bad mouth Elon Musk. I was hoping that after the last Reddit exodus, folks would understand that that company, and any other that backs a major social media network — They don’t care about what’s going on.
I think it’s pretty likely that any comment on reddit that’s talking about how good reddit is, is probably from a bot of some sort.
I have no particular evidence for that, but they’ve always embraced the bot economy. It was how reddit grew initially, with fake comments to make the site look busy and popular when it wasn’t. At this point it’s taken a lot more sinister turn, though, I feel like.
For me this idea of using fake comments to make the site look more active is already sinister enough. It shows a platform willing to mislead people for its own interests.
Yeah. Once you’ve opened the door, for whatever reason, all kinds of things can start to come through it.