If I remember correctly, the first days of Reddit were filled with bots posting to fake some user activity so that humans would ditch other platforms.

I don't remember if it was bots or just employees taking on several different "personas." But the goal of presenting a more active community was the same regardless.

Exactly and it's SO obvious. I honestly don't understand how anyone can still read Reddit... these political groups basically run the site now.

Yeah I'm sure Russian bots are basically running r/trains