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Re:Reddit is taking over Google by mejutoco on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:47PM (#40069896)
The founders admitted themselves to start traction on the site with a multitude of fake users.

All the "just asking questions" posts pushing certain narratives in every regional subrredit are also quite noticeable.

For me that is proof enough, but other people might have different standards.

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Re:Reddit is taking over Google by dalyons on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:04PM (#40070544)
that was like, 17 years ago? and imho not an unreasonable thing to get a social site off the ground that had no users. Seems pretty irrelevant to the problems of today.
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Re:Reddit is taking over Google by mejutoco on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:40AM (#40073899)
It might not be unreasonable to allow more bots before ipo, then. It is not proof, but it is a precedent.

In any case, my main proof is the narrative pushing (which imo is obvious)

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