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Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

It's one of the reasons I think public voting is a terrible idea. It's a wet dream for hyper-targeted engagement farming. Even to the point it creates a bit of a nightmare scenario for spear phishing and malware injection. The stated "transparency" benefits just seem incredibly trivial compared to the risk, especially when actual malicious actors will simply spam bots and alts, while actual users must navigate this weirdly huge threat surface for basically no good reason.