I can’t blame Reddit mods for putting up filters or Reddit filters on suspected bots. But I can definitely blame Reddit admins for ignoring or encouraging bots for the sake of metrics.

The number of accounts I found with thousands of posts to their own profile trying to game analytics was ridiculous

After 18 years, Reddit went public and I was suddenly hit with temp ban after temp ban for stupid shit until they kicked me for saying the US shouldn’t be allowing the starvation of Palestinian children by one of our “allies”.

I guess, according to Reddit, you can f* children and be worthy of praise, but food and medical supplies is a bridge too far? Get fucked Spez.

It’s one of the few times I wish the orange goblin had a senior moment and bans Reddit for r/obama.

A president lasts 4-10 years. I will always remember these racist pedo fucks and the bootlicking CEOs.

I left after the "Jesus gets us" advertising spam, followed by a year of constant Indian subs in my feed. I'm not Indian. I don't speak Hindi.

If you think Lemmy doesn't have a bot problem I'm sorry to be the one to burst your bubble. Sure, it seems less pervasive over here but they are just as numerous. The only difference is bots you agree with and bots you don't. There's only one group of bots you are going to be sceptical about and it's getting harder to spot them by the day.

But also, Reddit isn't doing jack shit about it these days. I go there to check the news sometimes when things are slow everywhere else and it's literally just the same bot accounts posting the same articles and bots of various political affiliations posting in the comments. You basically have to cross check everything you see on the internet. Sure, it's a good idea to do so regardless of bots, but the "magic" of other people being on the internet is basically dead.

Got banned from reddit. Still don't know why. Last thing I did was say apple isn't actually good for privacy, then provided sources.

Back in my day of PHPBB forum usage, we stopped spam by simply having a time limit between posts.

Get rid of mods too. The whole fucking point was to have the community moderate with voting. Somehow it all turned into mods running things and it all went to shit

Does Lemmy have any unique bot filtering techniques?