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This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.

The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.

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page@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Every day the Dead Internet theory looks more and more correct.

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- demlet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What that is?
  
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  - page@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
    
    The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.[1][2][3][4] These intelligent bots are assumed to have been made, in part, to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to ultimately manipulate consumers.[5] Further, proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception.[1] The date given for this “death” is generally around 2016 or 2017.
    
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    PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Bots are created to generate media and web content as filler, not as a conspiracy. It’s not government lead, it’s done by social media users, media/news organizations, and others.
    
    However, there are how many billions online? Internets not dead.
    
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  - allywilson@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Never heard of it before either, but here’s an article on it
    
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  - DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Essentially GW from Metal Gear Solid 2
    
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