• mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    it’s not called “bots” outside of social media but synthetic content is widespread across the rest of the Internet, due to different, but similarly large incentives. So no, it’s not just a FB/Reddit/Meta etc. problem.

    • Sonor@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I always kinda wondered about who would maintain the most widely known nsfw subreddits, and who the users in real life were who (like pepsi_next in the olden days) would spend all their days posting on them