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.
I know it’s a real problem and all, but dear lord does Lemmy in particular love that word.
It’s a word that encapsulates our times very well. But I hear ya.
I hate it. It’s been used so much that it’s lost all meaning.
Too much. Reminds me of that time not long ago where every lie was “gaslighting” all of a sudden.
Or how a favorable opinion is propaganda. Like, ok, we get it, you don’t like that one thing. 🙄
It wasn’t. That’s just you.
Why you little…
The word really started to become popular last year, especially regarding Twitter and Reddit.
Enshittification has been enshittified.
It’s a very accurate word for what is continuing to happen in this instance. This is not a bad use at all.
Yeah. I’m glad that people seem to have more interest in and understanding of rent seeking behaviors, but can we stop pretending this is new?