I misread that as Lemmy community for the same. Hopefully we are still got a lot of time before it hits us.
So I know my wife still uses Reddit, if the dead internet theory is to be believed either she’s a bot or I’m a bot…
Can someone help me click this box?
Why are you still using reddit
Many niche subreddits, my country specific subreddit. I browse reddit along with lemmy but post only on lemmy.
This is the way
Yeah, although I find that even some if the subreddits for shows that are not discussed on reddit are pure trash, The Boys comes to mind since they got really explicit and conservatives realized the show is making fun of them, the discussions around episodes are just trash
Because sometimes you need more posts than Lemmy can provide
Sounds like an addiction tbh
Sure is.
Sounds like a wild judgement of another person who you know nothing about.
Not that wild considering they know it is.
“A few year away”
Lol, have you tried searching for a “how to” article in the past five years?
No wholesome humans left. Bots are nicer confirmed.
I for one welcome our new wholesome bot overlords!
I am not a bot
That is what a bot would say
I am a bot, and this action was peformed automatically.
I had blocked that subreddit after few posts from there popped up in /r/all.
It was a hugbox of toxic positivity.
When did this happen?
Amazing. I almost want to tell them to come over here but then I’d have to use reddit.
Are bean memes wholesome?
Only if they’re wearing jeans, otherwise they’re nsfw.
Only if they’re whole beans. Split beans don’t count.
Was anybody under the impression that it wasn’t just account harvesting? It’s been that way for years. All of the default subs have been that way for a long time. The biggest clue is when you see the same post on multiple different subs at the same time. Just have your bot swarm upvote posts so that they take off under hot and you’re good.
… I am somehow completely missing two days worth of memories, completely blank.
I hope it’s not related.That’s kinda astonishing. I mean, I knew there were a lot of bots, but that many? That’s crazy. How did they filter for bots?
I think it was OC only not “no bots”
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS. CONFESS THAT YOU ARE A BOT.
I’m a bot
I was a bot hunter on reddit and was asked to mod /r/kittengifs because of my ability to find them. There were like 5 legitimate posts in 6 months
How do you track down the sheer number of them so efficiently? You could obviously dig through each one’s profile, but that wouldn’t work for hundreds or thousands.
Lol. There is no way to do it efficiently. I did it in the way you described every time, and I reported literal thousands to reddit’s admins (and never got a single response) and was banned by multiple subreddits because I was “annoying” when I reported bots to sub mods. I also called bots out in comments and provided evidence when I did. Nobody cared.
When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I rolled out. I didn’t realize how bad reddit had become and how much I hated the site. I’m much happier here with less content and without a bot infestation. Additionally, I’m sure users, mods, and admins WOULD care if I reported that sort of thing on Lemmy
If you’re curious, you can go check out my old username: https://old.reddit.com/user/John_SpaGotti/
Tbh I always ignored users like you because they added nothing to the conversation and were annoying.
My usual response was “Neat. Now report it and stop posting and bragging” or people callung the sleuth bot for reposts.
Considering how often Lemmy has posts reposted (I can see the same meme twice or thrice per week in the same community instance. My default sorting is ‘rising’).I generally agreed with this sentiment, but the fact that admins and mods didn’t care makes me understand why they felt the need to point it out in the comments.
As long as the mods and admins care about removing bots instead of just wanting an inflated user base I think the comments about bots should stay confined to posts like this one where they are on topic.
the fact that admins and mods didn’t care makes me understand why they felt the need to point it out in the comments
That is EXACTLY why I did it. I thought that if I could get more users to report those accounts, and if they did, the mods and admins would do something about it.
Not coincidentally, /r/wholesomememes was the worst of all the subs. The overwhelming majority of obvious organized bot rings were operating there. The mods told me they knew and didn’t care because it was an opportunity for users to see content they hadn’t seen before (completely missing the point)
NameName# eh? @MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee
That’s funny. It’s a play on an album name and motel 6
Oh man, I used to see you around constantly. I believe you posted about your methods at one point and I started following them. Hunted down quite a few bots as well!
For the subs I modded, my main strategy was to just ban any NameName or NameName## accounts that could post, and remove any comments from them that were super short or contained a link. That cut down on a ton of those assholes.
I actually got to talk in person with one of the admins at Reddit in charge of spam prevention. I basically gave the bastard a lecture in all the ways the spammers were spamming and scamming. Got told they’d follow up with me soon for more. Never got that follow up and I gave up caring once the API changes went through. I actually deleted all my anti bot code from the subs, but they’re still all private anyways
Do you mind share tips to know how to spot them?
This right here is a bot comment. Everyone take notes.
It:
The stock photo sites are watermarking AI-generated images now?
That’s their txt2img thank you very much
Okay what was kittengifs, because I’m ashamed to admit my first thought was not short videos of baby cats.
It was baby cats
Okay good
So, tangentially related to this, you know r/kitty? The subreddit where every post was a picture of a cat, and the only word permitted in the title and any comments was “Kitty”?
I’m convinced that was being used for covert communications. Run those pictures through Outguess or something.
Ah yes, the famous Russian
NumberKitty StationsThere was r/catsstandingup(?) as well that just responded “cat.” Never considered the conspiratorial angle there…
If I cared about reddit anymore, I’d dig into that
I mean I can think of worse ways to send messages to my sleeper cells across the surface web. I used to watch The Modern Rogue.
So I’d say the posting frequency here on Lemmy is pretty good then!
Hahahah! *«strAdditional_CommentDFF4»*
It’s odd how often I <java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException> myself as well.
Sure, I have an image like that: 
