Globally, but in the US they’re #2. They’re behind Facebook for those kind of sites. They’re right behind Amazon.com at #5 for popular sites overall. Kind of freaky. It must be masked bots for both reddit and facebook, it can’t be real users if you’ve seen the most popular pages.
Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.
I’ve moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you’d get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder…
Reddit’s response to the issue? “Hey, why don’t you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?”.
Globally, but in the US they’re #2. They’re behind Facebook for those kind of sites. They’re right behind Amazon.com at #5 for popular sites overall. Kind of freaky. It must be masked bots for both reddit and facebook, it can’t be real users if you’ve seen the most popular pages.
https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/united-states/
Of course it ain’t real users.
Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.
I’ve moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you’d get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder…
Reddit’s response to the issue? “Hey, why don’t you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?”.