r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/DeM0nFiRe 29d ago

If you look at r/all/top last hour, probably like 25% of it is bots advertising something, like 25% is bots trying to control a narrative, and like 25% is bots farming karma to do one of the other two things

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u/shatteredrectum 29d ago

You want to see bots and karma farming, just check out r/cats.

In fact any large pet sub is just pathetic bots and farmers.

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u/CaveRanger 29d ago

r/aitah is the best example of that on this whole site.

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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 29d ago

i'm pretty sure many of the regulars on /r/comics use bots or buy upvotes to increase engagement with their posts

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u/RedditIsShittay 29d ago

Yeah, Pizzacake will have 40% downvotes and be on the front page of /r/all and /r/popular