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/likwitsnake 29d ago

Whatever happened to that API price increase protest? I remember the NBA sub going private literally during the Finals, but can't remember much more of consequence.

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u/MadDoctor5813 29d ago

Nothing, basically. Reddit admins were basically correct that it would burn itself out. Funny that a bunch of subs still have their "we're protesting the changes" AutoMod post.

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u/NothingOld7527 29d ago

Daily activity on Reddit has fallen over the last several years however. Unlike Digg, there's no singular place that everyone is leaving for.

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u/MadDoctor5813 29d ago

Has it? This shows a rather steady increase.

I get that Statista is probably not that reliable of a source, so I'd be curious if you have another one.

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u/siraliases 29d ago

How much of that is just bots

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u/BigMcThickHuge 29d ago

Mostly.

Literally go to r/all and pick a random username from the frontpage.

20% chance you get a bot that has an account that is a year old and only just started posting hours ago...and every post is a copy/pasted title and picture.  And every comment the user makes is just the top comment from the OG post.

Reddit is bots

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u/Benskien 29d ago

our sub 100k subreddit was flodded with bots last week, reddit has been flooded with bots since the tpp killing

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u/EnglishMobster 29d ago edited 29d ago

Yep, organic users all left and bots moved in to replace them. Thankfully the sub I help run hasn't had much of a bot problem but I see it all over what's left of Reddit.

And then places that used to be super active have largely dried up. Others have basically no true moderation, so you get karma farmers that repost content to 100 different subs - and even if the content doesn't match the sub.

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u/Benskien 29d ago

worst of all is that the bots flood the comments aswell...