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Against Astroturfing and Social Media Manipulation@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Well thats crazy explicit astroturfing

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Well thats crazy explicit astroturfing

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Against Astroturfing and Social Media Manipulation@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13586199

Taking the fight to Reddit… FOR MONEY.

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it’s so essy to make a bot too. And reddit is earning loads through the API so they don’t bother to stop it.
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  You dont even need api for upvote farming
  
  Its like 3 lines of selenium
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    If you do it en masse, reddit detects it and sends your account a warning. It’s purposefully built to make you use the API.

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