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Probably worth considering that the (admittedly subjective and difficult to measure) quality of those posts and comments has likely taken a big dive.
It's purely subjective but I've seen a noticeable increase in bot prevalence. My lurker account has recently had multiple porn bots suddenly start to follow it which has never happened before.
What I wouldn't give to have stats on what % of the active Reddit community is actually organic vs bot.
The Twitter parallels continue.
I wonder if Reddit is setting thousands of bots loose to keep the activity high so their IPO looks better or something? I don't know how any of this works but something like that wouldn't surprise me.
Look on Wednesday, comments are posts are almost identical. Highly suspecting huge increases in bot activity after Sunday.
Wait, reddit has a follow feature? Who'd use that nonsense?
I used it to follow artists because they’d post to their own feed
It had a follow feature since at least 2012, maybe earlier than that. Miami redditors used to have a lot of meetups and we thought it would be fun to follow each other to see what we were commenting on and what subreddit everyone frequented, but since you couldn't see who was following you (at the time) it felt too much like stalking each other when we would bring up each other's comments each week, so we all stopped. But when someone you were following commented somewhere you were reading, it showed a special icon. Now they've made it more like Twitter where you have a profile page and a feed and they notify you when someone follows you, but it's all porn bots.