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Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results
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I checked my first one (that was banned later) once out of curiosity. 8ish years over 100k karma and it was like $20? You'd have to really grind to make any money like having a bot farm or something. Granted I never actually checked my account specifically, just similar accounts with similar age and karma.
This was years ago that I looked. I wouldn't be surprised if the number has gone down since then.
Oh gosh well mine was like $5 then lol. Yeah it really doesn't seem worth it to me but then I live in a totally different economy I suppose.
Yeah agreed. But if you're in a 3rd world country or some broke teenager that money goes farther. Bot farms buy "legit" accounts then influencers pay them for likes and interactions on social media platforms fooling The algorithm into thinking the content is popular then putting the bought content into real human's social media feeds. I have watched YT videos on how the stuff operates in the past. It just goes to prove that the internet is fake af. Going viral can be bought. Algorithms can be manipulated. It's all bullshit.
Lemmy seems pretty legit so far though! I'm pretty new here but it seems like a small corner of the internet that's not yet taken over by 90% bots!
......yet.....
Yes I enjoy it here so far, there's a few hotheads but I guess that can't be avoided anywhere. People seem genuinely interesting and interested in cool stuff, so it's really my jam. All that stuff is just so beyond my, interest I guess. I love doing things with computers, making art, editing photos, games, I can make some simple web pages and put them on a host, etc. Fun stuff. Now it's all.... I dunno lol. I never got into phone apps to begin with so I think I was lost from the start. I like computing on a full computer. Honestly any algorithm besides chronological sort is junk to me, like you said it can all be gamed so it's just all so dumb.
Oh yeah I totally get it! The only reason I'm in the "know" is because I work in IT. I used to love computers growing up but uh... Now that I do it for a career, I don't have much interest in computers as a hobby. I used to lie at work in entry level positions saying stupid shit like "computers are my life!" Because I thought that's what I needed to do to "fit in". But, these days I'm just honest. When I get off work I don't fire up my gaming pc (don't even have one), I fire up my grill!
Glad you like it here! I'm pretty new myself. My only issue is there's not much traffic sometimes but what makes it so "real" is how empty it feels sometimes. You know people read your comments instead of getting buried in thousands of bot comments.
Haha, well you made it farther than I did, I too liked computers growing up but even though I went and got my A+, Network+, MCSA and all that years and years ago, and then went back to school and got an associates in web development, and then didn't do anything with that either. OOF. Well good news is now I know why I wasn't allowing myself to succeed back then, bad news is it's way too late now for any of that with AI poising to take over everything. I'm kind of glad I didn't now, kind of, if it wasn't for the fact I'd actually be financially stable now if I did lol. But life is a journey. I'm actually a bit of a luddite now despite my very early adoption of computers, internet, etc haha. Funny how that works out. Grill sounds great, I love cooking out doors as well, it's just invigorating :)
AH yeah, I had an older account but I deleted it because I couldn't resist the urge to make negative comments about the state of things all the time and I'm trying to be more positive so I made a new one. Yeah it's a bit slow at times but that is kind of refreshing not have to keep up with an endless barrage of stuff ya know.