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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

"We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don't usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search," ReplyGuy's website reads.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ it's like how you know that skull fucking grandma would be awful, but actually seeing it happen is a whole different level of fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

brands can tap into the rich, high-intent product conversations

What the hell is a high-intent product conversation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

People talking about topics the marketing-droids feel is likely to result in the sale of a product, i.e., "What is the best X to buy?"

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it’s harder to post to Reddit as a human being than it is as a bot. You have to read like six paragraphs of text (which doesn’t show up on old Reddit) to make sure that your post is formatted correctly, and then a mod will look through your comment history and ban you because they read everything you’ve ever posted and discovered that you own a car or something.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Twitter does the same thing and it's horrible lmao

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I really would like to quit Reddit but I have to admit that Reddit has a lot more variety in terms of content, so I'll keep using it until Boost for Reddit finally breaks for good.

50% of the content on Lemmy falls into four categories:

  • Posts complaining about Reddit
  • Linux memes
  • Commieposting
  • Porn
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Cats
  • Memes about cats
  • Cats using Linux
  • Owning a car is evil and you should be ashamed
  • You should have a cat instead
  • We hate Elon Musk
  • Knives

(Hey, at least I'm trying.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • getting banned for not worshipping Stalin.
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You're forgetting star trek discussions and memes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is Boost still working for you? I just get a failed to refresh message

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If it's like reddit sync you'll need to patch it with revanced

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Let me see that pussycat gurl

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

It sucks because I use reddit as a source to find out info about products . Now I won't.

So ultimately I might buy less?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I see no conflict

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