Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
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Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

“We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don’t usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search,” ReplyGuy’s website reads.

  • nytrixus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    We don’t need them. If they’ve spent years, shitting on the communities they’ve hogged all this time, what does one think they’ll do when they come here?

    The worst that they can do is run their own instance, but it’ll be away from the rest of us.