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

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About like 0.5% Max actually stopped using Reddit. The amount of people who "left" is/was MASSIVELY overblown.

About like 0.5% Max actually stopped using Reddit.

It isn't just people who stopped using it completely; it's also people who were active there, and after the events started simply lurking. I believe that quite a bit of people did this (way more than the 0.5% who left), and that this is mostly overshadowed by the surge of bot content there.

And even if only 0.5% did something different, it means 99.5% fit what I said in the second paragraph.

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