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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you go to Reddit which is more popular for bots certain subs are completely filled with spam and votebots. r/worldnews is like a giant circle of pro IDF bots jerking eachother off. LSF became a shitshow too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And that's with a fairly active mod team too. Imagine the spam if there were no controls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

To be fair, the mods are complicit