Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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This comment made me realise that the internet could have been born, lived, and died, within my lifetime.
Like phone calls, and texting, bad actors ruin everything that they touch.
Even snail mail.
It infuriates me to no end almost everyday I get new plasticized paper ads in my snail mail. Like yeah keep destroying the planet in hopes of selling more junk to destroy the planet with. And my city made it mandatory ! They are not allowed to skip a house.
Idk their new album sounds pretty good
Good actors too, it's the nature of capitalism.
Who is the 'good' actor in this 'capitalism' thing?
It's more of a technical concept within the lore than an actual character.
There are cooperatives and I haven't seen any of them so such spamming. The fediverse is an example of it too.
I consider internet dead at this point. I hang out on the outer edge in niche low population servers like the fediverse that the worst humans mostly ignore because spamming here isn't profitable and manipulating politics doesn't gain much for their efforts at the moment.
Thank you for the strange compliment.