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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by cantSpellSober on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:42AM (#32867667)
That was more true a decade ago. Once a reddit gets big enough to be useful, it will be too big. After the_donald and similar, strange white supremacist posts started appearing in, say, small programming reddits that had previously been immune to shitposting.
Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by unsupp0rted on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:48AM (#32867773)
I also experienced the reverse: programming subreddits, tv show subreddits, and even blogs and mailing lists started telling me to support BLM (which isn't a thing in my country), avoid beating up Asian people (which was easy to do since I was living in Asia), etc

I was there for Javascript tricks and they insisted that I check my privilege. It got exhausting, not because it's insulting, but because the signal to noise ratio of what I came to a subreddit or mailing list to see was way off the mark.

This seems to have improved a bit in the last year or two, since Covid stole the show, but not entirely.

Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by cantSpellSober on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:49PM (#32871132)
That's not the reverse, we're describing almost the same problem