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[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, do we have a good reason to believe that this was the admins and not some other random third-party group just deciding to do this for shits and giggles?

Because on one hand yeah I could totally see red it doing this after all of their other stupid mistakes so far.

On the other hand this seems really strange to me and it just seems so insane to think that Reddit would even think of doing this.

[–] HeinousTugboat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand this seems really strange to me and it just seems so insane to think that Reddit would even think of doing this.

Have you read about any of Spez's interviews? This feels entirely like something they would do. Don't forget, reddit was originally populated with bots.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven’t heard about that (being originally populated by bots) but I would love to read something about it if you know of anything.

[–] fivezero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

“Huffman […] together with Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005. Embarrassed by an empty-looking site, the founders created hundreds of fake users for their posts to make it look more populated” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History