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Marketers are about to infiltrate your favorite subreddits.
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Once they went public this was bound to happen (more).

For just $3.99 you can shit post anything you want!

I was active in another platform for a specific older car. It was 5-6 of us who mostly spent time answering questions from people trying to keep their car running. Lots of detailed specific responses. Then the advertisers started to be offered user accounts that allowed them to spam post the whole platform. One in particular would post ads, they look like posts from a user though, every couple days, for a scanner that doesn't work for our cars. So I started calling these posts out as you can comment on them. I told the admin they can tell the marketers to fuck off or I am gone. No one to answer questions, no one is going to show up to ask them. They rather have advertiser pay them $30/mo to spam it than have it function. On lemmy, I mod this community now.

“Top 5 shitpost tips Reddit doesn’t want YOU to know about “ #shittips

I absolutely hate the way reddit has become, but let's be honest, it was gamed since way back. Them going public imo has not much bearing on this