• Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    My understanding of how this works is that that left one is real accounts making real comments, at least in the majority.

    Then when the link gets reposted, either by a bot or naturally, potentially depending on the title, the bots scrape the old comments and post them.

    It’s content farming. And Reddit is probably okay with this.

    • moriquende@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      The right one is the “real” accounts. Notice how the left one is newer and all the accounts have names ending with four digits, except where they aren’t copies from the right.

      • Sternout@feddit.de
        1·
        6 months ago

        No, the left one is older and most the names in the right contain four numbers.

        What’s going on here?

        Maybe op updated the picture?

        • Blaze@reddthat.com
          2·
          6 months ago

          I did, because other people complained in another comment that it was confusing to not have the older thread on the left.

          Anyway, it’s pretty obvious which one is which one

  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    I remember when the narwhal used to bacon only at midnight.

    Now the narwhal is forced to bacon continuously.

    This kills the narwhal.

  • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
    1·
    6 months ago

    They lost so many users they needed the “engagement” numbers for the IPO so they opened the flood gate. Now they are stuck with an issue they can’t fix without admitting the fraud.

  • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
    0·
    6 months ago

    We use manual approval for programming.dev accounts where there is a very simple instruction you must follow to be approved. The amount of spam that fails that test makes me concerned about the amount of bots from instances without any barriers for account creation.

    What happens on reddit (in regards to spam) will inevitably finds its way to ActivityPub link aggregators like lemmy.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    0·
    6 months ago

    Just paid a visit. It’s really gotten bad. Horrible titles that make little sense. People falling over each other to make tired quips instead of conversation, and the rest to point out how someone is wrong or one-up the commenter.