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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by ganoushoreilly on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:46PM (#36215591)
Funny enough i've been getting multiple daily notifications of people following me on reddit.. Never used that feature.. nor does anyone I know use it. All the names are clearly generated too. Is it a 3rd party? Is it Reddit trying to create user metrics as a social platform? It's all suspect at this point.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by w0m on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:38PM (#36216360)
I assumed this is simply spammers as they accounts are ~always deleted quickly.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by danudey on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:07PM (#36215926)
In my experience it's all OnlyFans porn spam, which I doubt are bots created by Reddit.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by devsegal on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:55PM (#36219002)
Maybe for you. Those girls were genuinely interested in my thoughts on philosophy.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by wing-_-nuts on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:23PM (#36219302)
careful you're putting descartes before the wh... nevermind
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by d0gsg0w00f on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:11PM (#36220389)
Thanks. This made my day.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by anadem on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:12PM (#36220400)
Wonderful!
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by x0x0 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:11PM (#36219169)
Just share your credit card and they'll share even more... thoughts.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by missblit on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:45PM (#36216472)
I know I have accidentally followed like half a dozen people. Looks like the UI is a bit different now but it used to be way too easy to click that button.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by wlonkly on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @08:42PM (#36221214)
As others said, those are non-Reddit-operated spambots. But as for the names, any new Reddit users gets a WordWord1234 type name now, and you have to go out of your way to change it, so there are also a lot of legitimate users using those generated names.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by tmaly on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:27PM (#36221608)
I noticed the same thing this past week.

I am not very active, but people are following me daily.

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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by froggit on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:57PM (#36235340)
Funny, i get multiple daily notifications for suggestions on subreddits to follow. I'd love if we could just cut out the middleman and get the users following you to follow the threads that get suggested to me instead.
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