It probably seems weird asking this on Lemmy, but of course posting this on Reddit would get banned or taken down. Reddit doesn’t like being critical of Reddit. Anyways….
Over the last 10 years as a Reddit user I’ve believe the amount of accounts that are bots or foreign bad actors has tipped past 50%. I have no statistics to speak of, but would love if somebody did and could share.
Based purely on some of the conversations, posts, rage bait, strong ideologies, etc… I’m pretty convinced that a reasonable sample of humans could not or would not act the way they do on that platform. So often now I see posts that I feel are specifically attempting to sow discord and disagreement.
Does anyone else agree? What percent of users do you think are bots? Foreign bad actors?
Sadly, I think Reddit has no desire to find out or do anything about it. There would be no upside to them correcting their advertising numbers.
If it’s big enough for us, it’s big enough for state actors. They may not be putting in a ton of effort yet, but I’m sure they’re here.
it mostly seems to be US so far… How .world handled the dead CEO story was very telling who their handlers are.
Hilarious, and no. Turns out we’re all “handled” by legal authorities.
Most of our communities have different mods. Some were a bit overzealous at first (imo). It seems the whole instance doesn’t get much credit for avoiding the Reddit supermod situation and instead the whole instance is judged by whichever mod each user each dislikes the most.