Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

  • Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Oh, this is great.

    Users noticed that Google had too much bad results because of SEO and spam flooded search results.

    Users added “reddit” to their search terms, so they get results from reddit, where spam and astroturfing were… there but manageable.

    Now the SEO people and advertisers target reddit with AI tools, until it is so enshitificated that we have to find something else (rinse and repeat)


    “No, don’t leave, we just finished saturating the space with ads!”

    “Why do you think we leave?”