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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

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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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    coming from a disinformation campaign

    It wouldn’t be surprising:

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      Oh my gosh, someone needs to contact tech news orgs

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        Like Ars Technica?

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      Even the user names are formatted in a similar fashion.

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        That’s reddit’s auto-generated username format. Most bots use those.

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          Hey, some of us just lack imagination.

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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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