• Obituarykidney@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    In the search bar type

    Author:(username)

    Shows you every post and comment they’ve made, including “hidden” ones, with more sort options than their actual profile.

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    7 hours ago

    Eventually their stock price will crater if the platform hollows out any more. Companies pay a lot of money for advertisements and they measure the effectiveness of the ads. Ad platforms (usually) spend a lot of money to ensure that impressions aren’t wasted on bot traffic.

    If you shed your user base while amplifying bot accounts, there’s no reason for companies to bring their ad spend to you.

    Once again MBA greed and short term thinking wrecks something that had value.

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      Not wrecked. Cashed out. It’s intentional, and they’re just making as much as they can get away with, before the well dries out.

      It’s wrecked for the users, sure, but this is what capitalism is. Stealing and selling what others created, for profit, fucking them over.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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      2 hours ago

      Also, if they do not reign in the bots, their data becomes useless for AI companies, so these deals will stop to pay too.

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    7 hours ago

    Haven’t checked myself but a while back someone told me you can still find the posts and comments if you search for the user. So that basically just adds an extra step

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    8 hours ago

    The irony is that me, a real person, gets banned and banned some more, for saying something pro-Republican back in 2012, while these bot accounts spray slop all over the site with immunity.

    • teslekova@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      That sucks man. I got banned for “anti-Zionism”. Reddit really has become a meaningless wasteland for anyone with political opinions.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s ok, I’ve been perma-banned for stating the simple fact that Andrew Tate deserves to be beaten to death in a dark and hopeless Brazilian prison. So they’ve come full circle.