cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/mildlyinfuriating/p/877984/this-absolute-bullshit-from-reddit
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They’re trying to get humans off Reddit and replace them with bots. They make money from ad revenue, and people just aren’t as guaranteed to click through as much as bots can be programmed to.
Curiously, gaming the ad revenue system is the same reason Musk won’t ever do anything about the bots on Twitter. Well, that and they stroke his ego.
reddit is a psyop packed full of bots whose only purpose is manufacturing consensus and astroturf propped up by idiots and bots
the bots don’t generate revenue though, Reddit will lose money if they keep bots running on their site.