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withersailor@aussie.zone to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular

arstechnica.com

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reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular

arstechnica.com

withersailor@aussie.zone to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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In its early days, reddit was built on lies. Sure, lots of code, but some lies.
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  • Communist@beehaw.org
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    I swear to god the people arguing against the fediverse are fake, their arguments are so unimaginably bad that I can’t imagine they aren’t coming from a disinformation campaign

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      coming from a disinformation campaign

      It wouldn’t be surprising:

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        Oh my gosh, someone needs to contact tech news orgs

        • sharpiemarker@feddit.de
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          Like Ars Technica?

      • saxy_sax_player@beehaw.org
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        Even the user names are formatted in a similar fashion.

        • sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org
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          That’s reddit’s auto-generated username format. Most bots use those.

          • Confuzzeled@lemmy.world
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            Hey, some of us just lack imagination.

      • AbidanYre@beehaw.org
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        Looks exactly like all the arguments against net neutrality when that fiasco went down.

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        The ELI5 thread yesterday where someone was asking about what was happening looked very similar to this. Nearly everyone in that thread was saying the reddit app was great and people woild be back after the protest. The upvotes just seemed fake to me, is all. One upvoted comment even said the apollo dev was lying, which confused me. Was that spez? Who knows.

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      That essentially how I see the internet lately on mainstream platforms… You see a lot of posters are basically putting out the most toxic crap imaginable that you essentially learns not to look at comments in certain communities particularly the News website. From all of that experiences, you can see how “Dead Internet Theory” have a lot of merit especially now that “shadowbanning” is common.

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    spez then: make fake account to make site look better spez now: admit site is still losing money after almost 20 years

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      Fuck spez

  • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.world
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    I know what to do here now /s

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    Feels kind of like learning about some unpaid traffic tickets that OJ Simpson has. Shitty thing to do, but it’s not the main reason I hate the guy.

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    Fake it till you break it

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      They are breaking it alright.

      • The dogspaw @midwest.social
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        They need to break it more

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    i wonder if all this big social platform will not end with lots of fake profile feeded with chatgpt. For your information, I’m NOT a chatgpt comment 😜

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      wow the LLMs can use emojis now

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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      mmm… that’s exactly what chatGPT would say…

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      I get your concern! With AI tech getting better, there could be more fake profiles run by chatbots like ChatGPT. But platforms are fighting back with verification processes and content moderation. It’s not all bots out there, so stay skeptical but trust they’re working on it!

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    That’s also how they established the norms of the site. The founders wanted a particular kind of community so they made fake accounts post and vote in ways that reflected that desire. Posts with grammatically sound English were upvoted, text speak was downvoted.

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    I mean ya, that’s not super surprising. The hardest part of getting a site to take off is adoption.

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      Exactly. I’m trying to spam content here so people think it’s more active. I don’t really see a problem with Reddit launching with self generated content, the important thing is the user experience once it gets going.

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    oh that’s just what I did for Lemmy, and it worked!

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    That wont fix activity though

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    Now its just getting sad, lol.

    Edit: nvm I thought this was about today’s reddit. Its about early reddit.

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