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[–] claymedia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It doesn’t seem organic. Protest posts would get 95% upvotes, then suddenly 12 hours later get slammed with bootlickers and downvotes.

[–] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit felt really astroturfed for years now. Start mentioning Neill Druckman in any capacity and your post immediately got flooded with copy paste hate centered on TLoU2. It seemed organic at the time, but when the TV series came out it was very sus, as if somebody had forgotten to turn off their bot army.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a weird thing to target with bots.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transphobes came out of the woodwork for it. And not only were they annoying for the obvious reasons, but they've also poisoned the well for criticism. I loathed the plot, but I have to be careful with my criticism so I don't get lumped in with them.

[–] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 2 points 1 year ago

So much this! TLoU2 was a major setback for me in many ways, but a normal discussion was impossible.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

I've talked to a few that seemed organic, but those were basically people who wanted Reddit to get back to normal and not waste time on bullshit that didn't affect them personally.

[–] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 3 points 1 year ago

i did check in a few communities that i was engaging with before, and honestly, it seemed organic, but it was always lurkers/semi-lurkers who don't post and only comment like once every two months. accounts for the delay as well, because they don't check reddit that often (before everything went to shit posts would usually be gathering views for a good 24 hours)

but reddit also started using chatgpt to prop itself up lately (which afaik is against chatgpt's tos, so that's nice for the future lawsuit if they wanna cash in), so idk. that does put a damper on their legitimacy.