TechnologyEnglish • 10 months ago

BotDefense is leaving Reddit

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BotDefense is leaving Reddit

arstechnica.com

TechnologyEnglish • 10 months ago

Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit

arstechnica.com

Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.

Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.

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@dhork
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29•10 months ago
Maybe that’s the plan, charge the bots to talk to each other
- @everythingsucks
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  19•10 months ago
  Close.
  
  Make people have to sign up to use Reddit
  
  Have bots do the work of people by reposting old top posts
  
  ???
  
  Profit
  - @lolola
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    15•10 months ago
    It’ll be like watching a bunch of CPU players fight each other in Smash Bros. That’s entertaining, right?
- Kora
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  5•10 months ago
  In otherwords they’re speedrunning the capitalism fueled ai takeover

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