You're probably right, as Reddit has or wants to go to the stock market and they need to demonstrate line going up, even if it's fake.
replyBecause even fake / generated content gets impressions, comments, upvotes, etc, which is the kind of metrics they optimize for.
Reddit has been botting since the very beginning and never stopped.
replyThis is true. I vouched it. It's well known that Reddit was initially seeded by bots copying from other sites to fake organic activity.
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