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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by heavyset_go on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:34PM (#25307476)
> At this point I'm convinced Reddit's platform is being used as a propaganda tool, with the goal of bombarding users with the same views in every major subreddit.

There's an entire cottage industry dedicated to doing reputation management for brands on platforms like Reddit. I don't think Reddit cares that they aren't using their ad platform directly, because the companies that manipulate Reddit buy awards for their posts and what not.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by goalieca on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:47PM (#25308556)
> because the companies that manipulate Reddit buy awards for their posts and what not.

that was a real stroke of brilliance but also of pure evil. When combined with the downvote button and aggressive moderation against 'undesired content' and 'misinformation', they've ensured themselves to be quite a powerful totalitarian bubble with a large army and outsized influence on internet culture.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by nprz on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:00PM (#25308734)
Advertisers posting and commenting to an audience of other advertisers.
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