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The state of reddit (hexbear.net)

Log off of reddit, your just talking to bots lol

https://reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/s/2arHLwdwhI

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[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 71 points 2 years ago

we are past dead internet theory. we are rapidly approaching necromorph internet theory

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

UPDATE: Just got a DM from the bots on reddit: "MAKE US WHOLE"

I figure that either means they want to incorporate my brain into their biomechanical large language model, or else they made a typo trying to ask for a specific kind of art commission.

Either way I think that's a good sign for me to log off

[-] shath@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

make but hole

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Reddit bazingas missing the point of Dead Space solidarity bots resembling Reddit bazingas missing the point of Dead Space

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

long live the new flesh

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago

10mo ago same-picture 1hr ago.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

Job Creators Network is a nonpartisan organization founded by entrepreneurs who believe that many government policies are getting in the way of the economic freedom that helped make this country prosperous.

Most cursed sentence of the day. yea

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Reads like someone in a corporate office wrote it. Nobody speaks like this except corpos and neoliberal activists.

[-] flan@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

this is basically every post in the default subs. In some cases bots will also recycle comments from imgur and other places

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

At first glance this looks terrifying, as if they've created bots to emulate discourse and inflate content/engagement/numbers for whatever reason.

Reading through it all, though, all the accounts on the left side (the newer post) have two English words, usually separated by underscores, and 3-4 numbers on the end. Including the OP. So it looks like it's just a coordinated bot army that reposts all content and then replicates all the old comments, character for character.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago

This is the default reddit suggested username generation. The bot accounts literally just accepted whatever reddit suggested.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

And all the bot accounts were created on the same day, August 3rd 2023. And their only activity is in this post.

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

why did i instinctively read the comments in the link you posted lol

Death to America

[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

Hello I'm Word_Word_1234 and I'm a real person

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Ha ha same here!

[-] charly4994@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Honestly didn't believe it so I went and looked and found both threads. Really fucking wild to just see it so brazen.

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Good choice of avatar

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

Can someone please explain it to me, I don't get it :(

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

The left column is all bots. You can tell because their usernames are all [word][word][numbers]. But notice how two usernames on the right column fit the same exact pattern. There's a good chance they are bots as well.

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Does it mean there are only bots left on Reddit?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

A tonne of activity there is definitely bot. It's almost impossible to tell without getting side by side like this though.

[-] gunter@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Left, like left of the center of the image, or left by the hand of god?

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

It is incredibly easy to create Reddit bots, I know some first and second year programming students who did it for a university assignment

[-] Melonius@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What percent of the upvotes on the dead link repost are bots or just average reading allergic redditors?

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Reddit is just 30 people talking to about 2 million bots. The bots are trying to accumulate enough karma so the account is valuable to advertisers. Reddit gets engagement so they don't care. Advertisers get high-clout "real people" accounts. And the techno-scavengers make a few hundred dollars or a few thousand per year.

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