Reddit seems to be scrambling behind the scenes to try and limit the effects of the migration. Damage control: ChatGPT bots are spamming pro-admin, astroturfed comments : RedditMigration

[–] May@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Hello i hope you dont mind if i post that post, in case someone does not want to go onto reddit:

r/Save3rdPartyApps
u/attackofmilk

Subreddits are starting to see spam from anti-protest, pro-admin ChatGPT bots
Thread on /r/Pics discussing bot spam. (Pics is now NSFW, but this thread is only profanity / vulgarity.)
/r/pics/comments/14puynz/chatgpt_bots_are_spamming_proadmin_astroturf/

/r/Programming closed (by admins?) after community recognition of bot spam:

Ycombinator thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36361247

Top-voted post from /r/Programming before it closed: https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/146wn9s/meta_who_is_astroturfing_rprogramming_and_why/

(I would have just crossposted the top thread directly, but this sub forbids crossposting NSFW posts (which is now everything on /r/Pics )

[+] man_in_space@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] fivezero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

And the beautiful irony is that in their mission to secure an increased IPO valuation they merely reduced it substantially. Gonna need some more popcorn as we watch them burn it to the ground

[–] fivezero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Looks like r/programming discovered the astroturfing, so in true Reddit fashion they simply shut down the subreddit entirely to avoid the spread of negative public sentiment. Thanks for galvanizing my resolve to migrate to the fediverse, Spez

[+] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] Hypx@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's truly amazing. Even people who knew that Reddit was destined to fail someday, wouldn't have predict it happening so fast.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most people expect gradual change when many things in life are more like punctuated equilibrium.

Stable state despite gradual change in underlying conditions.

Then rapid change to new stable state.

[–] Entropywins@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You've now put a fear in me about my life that I wasn't ready for...

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry to do that, but I believe the world makes a lot more sense when viewed through the lens of punctuated equilibrium. It does not make things better, just makes the chaos more understandable.

The dot com bubble.

The housing bubble.

Basically every economic bubble all the way back to tulip mania.

The Arab Spring.

The changes in the USA post 9/11.

And most disturbing of all, the recent rapid swing of pretty much all environmental indicators into uncharted territory. Our biosphere may be heading into a phase of rapid change.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Nobody wants to change. It's hard and expensive. Until they have to because conditions have required it. Then they change as fast as possible to a new state that works in the new conditions so they can survive.

[–] fivezero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agreed. For years I had truly (and naively) believed that Reddit, despite their prior blunders with which we are now all mostly familiar, would maintain an acceptable level of decency and never push things so far as alienate their core userbase. Shot themselves squarely in the foot on this one I think, as their recent changes affect so many.

[–] Razputinsgirth@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

But that's just the dig they did make horrible decisions that fucked Reddit up. But the 3rd party apps fixed most of those problems. Whenever I look at new Reddit it's literally so much harder and spammy to use. For year's now

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What a bummer.

I’m doing ok without it though. I didn’t load old.reddit once today.

I probably won’t tomorrow.

I used to look at Reddit in almost all of my downtime at work. Now I’m trying to write when I see nothing new is coming up on Lemmy.

Still though. 15 years on Reddit. Goddamn. It definitely bums me out. I mean, it’s just a website, but it has helped shape so much of who I am.

I’m an atheist in the Bible Belt for example, and atheism being a default sub back in the day really helped me out a lot.

All things must pass.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Shut down, you say? Every subreddit should post such truths, you say? Reddit will atomize itself instantly, you say?

Okay, maybe not but it's a fun thought, no?

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

r/programming was one of the earliest subreddits, I think it was actually #2. Can't view it anymore, but the moderation team of r/programming would have been pretty reddit admin/staff heavy. Pretty sure spez was listed on the moderation team at one point.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The perfect site for reddit admins would be endless bots posting, commenting and viewing adds while said advertisers are oblivious to the con.

The first two have been going on at some level for years. The last? Well, it will be interesting to see the official reddit app's adoption numbers in the coming months.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

That's also a fantastic way to end up in jail, which I wouldn't be opposed to spez getting familiar with

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That won't go well either, in the long run. Advertisers will catch on to how many "people" are viewing their ads without ever clicking on anything and put their funds elsewhere.

[–] AnAnxiousCorgi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Just gotta make it look good for the IPO, then what does Spez care?

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't feel it's appropriate for me to comment on this.

/joke

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

At least ChatGPT is a more polite than the toxic, racist & sexist shit that remains on Reddit. Scrolled through /r/all this morning and was appalled by some of the toxic comments in the various submissions. I also noticed some sockpuppets somehow spewing the same bullshit opinion about certain topics, using the literal same type of phrasing too, just in different comment chains and with different accounts.

Honestly, probably better for my blood pressure to stay away from most of it.

[–] Echo71Niner@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit is deploying millions of bots across the site, most of people on that shit site are interacting with bots.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Ad-free no-money-to-reddit teddit link, https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14q12g7/subreddits_are_starting_to_see_spam_from/

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They found a bot on Reddit!? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you... well okay, not that shocked :-). \s

(yes I know, there's more to it than that, I just wanted to say the meme text, and also take this opportunity to BOW DOWN BEFORE OUR NEW OVERLORDS)

[–] brianshatchet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I already knew they didn't want moderators to have better anti-spam tools since it would decrease the apparent activity to attract advertisers.

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