I’d be surprised if it was only 15%
The other 85% is non-corporate trolls trying to manipulate public opinion
Worse. State actors to suppress the truth and push their narrative.
Better. Cat people pushing their narrative making me want a cat.
You need a cat.
Cat people > Lizard people
Edit: I’m not talking about pet owners.
Nah. It’s 10% non corporate trolls. The rest is all bots.
15% of reddit is probably political, the other 85% are niche subreddits.
You think corpo content is limited to political subs?
No, but just from my own personal experience, at least the corpo accounts on niche subreddits are open and upfront about it, and use it as an official customer service place. Whereas the political shills aren’t disclosing who they’re paid by.
r/SFWimaginarywerewolves
I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Edit: But of course this post is taking off anyway because Lemmy users are soooo much more discerning than those dumbass Reddit users.
this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Yeah. It’s probably corporate trolls manipulating public opinion.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.
A corporate troll manipulating the public opinion by claiming corporate trolls were manipulating public opinion, that is.
Ah, yeah, I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny imagining the serious tone of Blade Runner’s replicants pasted onto Reddit bots astroturfing for Burger King.
15% corporate trolls 35-45% state trolls
Guy from Langley spending 80 hours a week posting hundreds of SpongeBob memes to convince the Wendy’s PR company flak that we need to invade Greenland for national security reasons.
Do we? Eh… who, exactly is us?
I am stunned it is only 15%. I guess the study ruled out the reposting of content.
I have seen shit echo on Reddit for over a decade.
Maybe the rest is porn.
It says AT LEAST 15%
And this is what AI is trained on
This blog post was plausibly written by AI. Look at the fabricated source on the 2020 study and at the wording.
Old news, its gotten a lot worse since then.
There was a hilarious study the other month showing that on r/conservative, 30-60% of posts on any given day are 2 posters, who posted every single day - except the day that ukraine strikes knocked out power in moscow.
Man, do I not miss reddit one single fucking bit. I have never once looked back since leaving in the first wave of APImageddon or whatever we’re calling that. Every post I see or article I read just validates that decision.
reddit has always been risky in one way or another. When I first joined in 2013, it was 4chan-risky Now it’s Facebook-risky, which is honestly much more ultimately harmful and nefarious than 4chan-risky, even if 4chan and facebook of today share a lot of the same trolls.
Billionaires want to herd us and all of our communications into these controlled networks for a number of nefarious reasons, but the reason that matters most to you and I right now is that they know that people need to communicate in order to coordinate, in order to stand up to oligarchy. Facebook isn’t going to let people coordinate a general strike on its platform, and neither is reddit, or youtube, or any of these totally captured networks.
We need to own our comms, which means that the fediverse itself isn’t sufficient either.
So say it with me: Meshtastic
How do we keep this from not coming to Lemmy? Any ideas?
So far my experience here on Lemmy feels way more genuin, even encounters with people i strongly disagree with still feels real to debate with compared to reddit and even facebook.
Honestly, the only way I see is by staying under the radar. Right now Lemmy feels like early-days Reddit - most people haven’t heard of it, and the content is skewed heavily towards privacy-focused tech nerds. As soon as it becomes mainstream and everyone has a Lemmy account, that’s when the corporate trolling and bots arrive.
The one good thing about Lemmy is its distributed nature. Like we used to have private or invite-only forums back in the day, perhaps some servers could implement this kind of approach and only federate carefully with other servers. Would require a lot of coordination. But there’s definitely more hope here than on a commercial and centralised platform!
We’re already offered some protection by up/down votes not mattering. Botting yourself doesn’t buy you much visibility. The real concern for me would be Mods or channel owners on the take. Just like they can’t buy themself views, we rely on mods to bury bullshit and not bury non-advertiser-friendly content. Of course, if a channel goes rogue, we just abandon it on that node and move to another. The pure nature of federation makes us less attractive to advertisers, They’re not going to want to chase dozens of smaller channels all over the place for eyeballs. Also, we’re nearly too small to care about while there are targets as big as Bluesky and Reddit around.
The ‘At Least’ is doing heavy lifting there.
This person writes an entire-ass blog post titled after this alleged 2020 Computers in Human Behavior study and can’t even be fucked to link it, name its authors, or even say what the title is. I cannot find this paper anywhere. I looked through all twelve 2020 issues of Computers in Human Behavior and could not find this study. I searched keywords. Nothing.
What an obnoxious fucking dipshit and their useless, almost-entirely-unsourced* piece of shit screed. Based on the wording and the fabricated sourcing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this ragebait blog post was generated with an LLM.
* One source to a March 2017 Pew Research article the blog post claims is from 2018.
Checking Reddit during major events it is so bizarre how hollow it is now. It feels so redacted and full of chipper bots. It takes going to special interests subreddits to get to any semblance of realness. Looking at digg today felt the same way, like a mining system for marketing analytics or product pushes
Corporate trolls, state-sponsored trolls, agents and repost bots are at least 60% of the users and much more in some active subs like askreddit and any news subreddit (especially if critiquing genocide or war-raged areas). It’s just sad and so obvious.
Study: At Least
15%90% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public OpinionFixed.
So, nothing has changed in 6 years?
This must not be including the porn agencies. Would be over 90% if it were.
