Reddit isn’t trying though. Social media is hooked by big business interests and governments, and there is overlap there. I can spot influence agents, mechanized trolls, supported by bots, you can bet they could better with their tools and analytics.

As we’ve seen for the last ten years, social media only takes down bots/influence agencies researchers or others make impossible to ignore, and they’ve cut those researchers off from the information they were using to that effect. Now it’s only agencies the US government aligned groups highlight that will get removed, alleged Iranian, and the like, a bit player.

These inauthentic accounts vastly inflate their numbers, make advertising more valuable. Even as they make the sites less useful, and drive away real users, it’s also assumed that users have no where else to go so why push back on governments and big business ratfucking the sites that can hurt them in myriad ways?

Not until we build a fediverse that can get critical mass to take off will we see them fight for real people’s use of their site.