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what I noticed is that posts have huge amounts of upvotes, even from small communities, and often no comments or when it does have comments its often very basic stuff, almost AI like
https://i.imgur.com/rdR0oRZ.png
I can't believe 8 people had the exact same idea for a post at the same time, that's crazy
/s
Well, if you're going to defraud investors by pumping up your numbers before your IPO, you might as well go all out.
Is that recent? I haven't used Reddit since a few months and that phenomena was previously only on promoted posts (read, ads)
I think it was there for a while, it's just gone full mask off mode and become particularly noticeable now
like 2 months ago
You know what else is random and probably related to their paid content? Their sorting doesn't work right anymore. Posts in "hot" are regularly like more than a day old but then also some are brand new like minutes old. But if you sort by top 24 hours...same posts. Sometimes the order is different but easily 75% of the posts are the same. A 24 hour old post with no new comments is "hot"? A one hour old post with 20 comments is in the top posts of the past day?...OKAY
It could be incompetence. Lemmy.world has similar and significant issues with sorting as well and I presume you're not also implying that paid content has anything to do with lemmy sorting.
Go back to Reddit astroturfer.