Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

  • Rimu@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    There are a lot of strategies. afaik a tar pit tries to waste the attacker’s resources by delaying our responses to their traffic? A honey pot tries to funnel bot traffic towards a place which only bots would go to. Once they go there you know they’re a bot and they can be banned.