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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If only people moved to an open and federated platform. I mean I don't have to say that I hate reddit since I'm here but still whenever I Google a problem reddit answers are one of the most useful places. Especially about something local.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The only reason reddit was valuable was because it was from real people who weren't paid off. Well that's ruined now.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Doesn't mean that the fediverse is immune.

News stories and narratives are still fought over by actors on all sides and sometimes by entities that might be bots. And there are a lot of auto-generating content bots that post stuff or repost old content from other sites like Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's gross, but also inevitable. If there's an untapped niche to make money from, somebody's going to try it -- plus if they want to waste their money on generating accounts only to have them be banned, then so be it.

Makes me kinda thankful that this community is smaller and less likely to be targeted by this sort of crap.

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[–] [email protected] 210 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh, I would have thought Reddit themselves would offer such a service

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