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New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)

submitted 8 months ago by silverbax@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 months ago

Tbh happy I deleted reddit

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

The ebike subreddit is modded by the owners of Lunacycle. They actively remove posts about bad customer service/other issues from Lunacycle. I witnessed them name and shame some random redditor and accuse them of fraud because they posted screenshots of email correspondence that pointed out shady dealings on Luna’s part.

They use the general subreddit for electric bikes to funnel everyone into ordering from them.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Not like here on Lemmy. I assure you, I am 100% humon.

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

cough ferengi

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's amazing how much people will upvote something without reading it if the title confirms their biases

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Wait? I should read it?

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They've taken over moderation too. I criticized a local restaurant that got passed down from father to son, and got banned. I did call the son a trump loving shitstain so that might've had something to do with it.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I would've banned you for saying "Trump loving" followed by "shitstain" because there really is no need to say the same thing twice and waste everybody else's reading time...

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Now be fair. That's really uncalled for. Way over the top. Shit hasn't deserved being compared to Trump.

[–] pastaPersona@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reddit feels less genuine for sure, than it would have even as far back as 3 years ago. The mod purge probably accelerated things greatly but in general it’s felt like Reddit was going corporate astroturfing route for a while. Real discussions are very sparse compared to the amount of people telling you “to solve problem, buy this expensive thing!”

At this point the only thing Reddit has is a numbers advantage. The videos are no huge loss because at this point since you’re forced to use their (god awful) mobile app they either autoplay obnoxiously or automatically popup obscuring the comments (discussion is 90% of why I go to a forum why make it harder to see comments?).

The desktop experience is still okay but the constant pushing to get you to enable notifications is very irritating.

[–] Mkengine@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

At least on mobile for now you can use Redreader instead of the official app. Without that I would not open reddit links on mobile. I don't particularly like Redreader, but for the occasional search results with reddit at the top it is sufficient and miles better than the official app.

[–] RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

No way it's only 15%