South St. Paul also has an Air Force base in it. Which is also on that list
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago“Most Reddit Addicted City” was Eglin Air Force Base in 2014. Eglin has a history of research about Persona Management Software at their facility.
That post has been pretty blackholed by the internet at this point. The bots probably started as early as 2010-2012.
dumples@kbin.social 6 months ago
dumples@kbin.social 6 months ago
Makes sense. I noticed it was bad because it was obviously election related and completely off topic for the subreddit. So it went past the high quality into the simple and bad
saigot@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The Obama AMA was in 2012, That to me is the turning point for reddit, it’s when it’s population exploded overnight (which meant old users could no longer enforce cultural norms for the platform), it’s when news media really started taking the platform seriously and I think when a lot of the political influence of reddit was realized.