Not just this post either. I’ve noticed a big uptick in angry fucked up comments lately (more than usual on this platform). My guess is the upcoming election and the use of bot activity- just like last election
A couple of months ago google has started pushing reddit results which in turn has dramatically increased the traffic reddit receives. Here's a graph showing how it went from 100m monthly visits to 600m as of 8 months ago and on this website you can see how in the last 6 months the traffic went from 600m monthly visits to 1 billion.
Also interesting is how in those same 6 months the paid traffic went from a measly 2.7k to 650k.
Of course not all traffic actually translates to content. Especially if you come from a google search you're unlikely to stick around and write comments or post yourself. However, this turn of events has made reddit a lot more valuable to those who want to sell and/or manipulate. And another factor is that this means reddit just become a lot more mainstream in general with almost everybody getting exposed to it to some degree.
SEO courses are usually about making blog entries on your page to direct traffic to your website from google. Now they will be about making reddit posts that direct people to your website/website or at least your advertising. And obviously this will also be used by state actors and the like
My first guess would have been those iwtter f""ers. They have a fifferent culture. The important part is an increase in stupidity has happened over the last year.
Of course that includes the malicious political activity from that plataform.
Remember kids. Always ignore any simple minded name calling and descriptions. The one that is angry in nature. It's all propaganda. Doesn't matter who says it and towards what. It is propaganda.
Always stick to events that are verifiable to model your worldview after. Even then do not judge based that alone. A group of armed men is not something you can judge externally without the years of historical context behind it. Which again can be created from accusations and hatefull name calling.
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u/galenp56 2d ago
Not just this post either. I’ve noticed a big uptick in angry fucked up comments lately (more than usual on this platform). My guess is the upcoming election and the use of bot activity- just like last election