Reddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months later

Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Reddit@lemmy.world – 1421 points –
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For the threads with the older one on the left: https://lemmy.world/post/14859950

(Thank you @Nelots@lemm.ee )

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Is there a Reddit submission with this screenshot? I wanna read the reactions.

/r/conspiracy of all places, yuck...

Yeah, not the best place indeed

It used to be cheeky fun. Now it’s Alex jones and alt-right.

Oh man, I would browse while on the shitter at work. It used to be one of my OGs. A lot of tinfoil. And you'd get the deep dives that didn't feel politically motivated (compared to today).

Then, the Trumpeting.

Like everything else not stapled down circa 2016, it was an easy target for the Russian firehose of falsehood: an entire community of people wanting to believe some alternative bullshit.

Is perfect if you are targeting easily gullible massively ignorant people.

@Blaze

If you want to avoid Reddit tracking altogether a redlib instance will let you do that https://libreddit.projectsegfau.lt/r/conspiracy/comments/170e8dp/reddit\_comments\_are\_full\_of\_bots\_reupload/

Thanks for the link! I usually just use the Reddit link, I've had alternative viewers shut down in the past (e.g. Invidious instances for Youtube) and then people can't access the content anymore

@Blaze

Yes that’s a concern here as well but it’s pretty easy to run your own instance in Docker or whatever