Reddit used to get flooded with bots before elections. By 2024, they were just around all the time. I got permabanned after that, but it's probably even worse by now.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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You're not missing anything. Reddit is the embodiment of Empty Internet Theory. If you're a human posting on that site, you're a statistical anomaly. And not for long, because everyone's getting booted.
I got booted because:
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I said Peter Thiel should be turned to soup
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I said Th-iel should be turned to soup
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I said that I had previously been given a suspension for saying Peter Thiel should be turned to soup.
So now I'm redditless.
LOL! Thiel soup.. guaranteed to cause the shits!
I got permabanned for saying a naughty thing about Stephen Miller.
Found old.lemmy.zip, signed up and haven't missed a beat!
You're better for it.
Care to post a recipe for that soup?
- Boiling Hydrofluoric Acid
- Peter Thiel
I don't recommend eating the rich, due to Prions. It'd be better to render them and process them into fertiliser.
I'd hate to see what all the dick pills in Elon Musk's bloodstream would do to a field of corn.
dent corn that'll put a dent in you
That rendering process better be thorough - prions survive in the soil.
Edit: hydrofluric acid probably isn't very good for the soil either.
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The big and medium communities are lost. Small niche communities still have some good followings and timely content.
I recently got Permabanned from Reddit because I reshared the Alex Pretti video back when that was happening. They also banned every other account for every person in my household because of their fingerprinting service going overboard.
Fuck Reddit.
Its gotten really bad now that hidden profiles are a thing.
Hidden profiles?
Basically all comment history is hidden. Very popular with totally organic pro Maga accounts.
I've seen several accounts here on Lemmy that go to an error page when you click on the name on their post. I always report them to the admins and never see them again. Never heard back from anyone what's going on. I've developed a habit of checking the profiles of posts that just seem off.
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No there is just a major world event, a war in Iran, and people want to dump their angry hot takes about it incessantly. So you are going to have a big influx of people grandstanding about it being good or evil.
The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots, because well, just like bots, they are working off a contrived script about who is good and who is evil.
I've seen some pretty broad and good takes about the current conflict, but they are far and few and most of the replies are harassing them for not picking a side.
The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots
Some of the bots, on the other hand, are very easily distinguishable from humans. The one who's profile I checked out was posting well-polished exactly bot-like political memes for the past few months at a rate that would be a full-time job for an unassisted human.
I’ve not yet noticed any changes
Yeah I cant tell. Lots of accounts have history that are talking...so I dont think they are bots.
You can report if you want. Different instances will take different approaches.
Everyone on the Internet is a not except you.
I saw some obvious bots like a week ago, there are some among us for sure.
Maybe there's more than usual, because of the Iran related stuff.
Maybe there's just a higer percentage of neurospicy people on the fediverse.
I feel very confident this is the case. And I also suspect that most of the "bots" or "shills" or whatever other inauthentic accounts people think they are identifying are just these same types of people who have unusual posting habits or communication styles. I've yet to see one iota of evidence that there are any accounts masquerading as something they're not to influence politics. The only actual bots I've seen are the boring spambots who just post scam links at a rapid rate.
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I saw a couple that were obviously bots, when I looked at a news-relevant hashtag on mastodon today. I only noticed two, but that's two more than usual.
Not this bot again.
Just my guess - meant to bait people into making various threats to see how well Palantir's social media monitoring works at the fringes.
Be careful out there, y'all.
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There is a bot that posts nothing but links to reddit threads. I could block it or bots in general but then I won't be able to downvote the posts it makes. It moderates the communities it posts to so reporting it would do fuck all.
AFAIK that whole instance is nothing but Reddit repost communities and ought to just be defederated.
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Either way that doesn’t sound fun :( stay safe!
I'm not really surprised, in a lot of ways Lemmy and its fediverse is even more susceptible, although you don't need bots when a lot of people are as braindead as many of them, you just need to filter out susceptible users into cults-on-demand and brainwash them into acting like them.
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Some people block political threads, so all that's left are those that don't block them... which tends to be people who strongly believe in their opinions or want to use it as a soapbox to rant... so there's rarely any just "chill" opinions or nuanced takes. Almost everyone on a political thread is gonna be angry at something... against one side, cheering for the destruction of one side... or both sides...
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