Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
arstechnica.com
Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.

Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.

      • @[email protected]English
        19•1 year ago

        Close.

        1. Make people have to sign up to use Reddit
        2. Have bots do the work of people by reposting old top posts
        3. ???
        4. Profit
        • @[email protected]English
          15•1 year ago

          It’ll be like watching a bunch of CPU players fight each other in Smash Bros. That’s entertaining, right?

      • KoraEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        In otherwords they’re speedrunning the capitalism fueled ai takeover