1. El Deterioro de Reddit y la Invasión de Bots.
Los usuarios lamentan que Reddit, que alguna vez fue una fuente de comunidades nicho, se ha convertido en un "pozo negro" (cesspool) debido a la proliferación masiva de bots, IA y astroturfing, haciendo que la experiencia sea insoportable fuera de los subreddits muy específicos.
- Reddit has become even more of an absolute cesspool. So much astroturfing and ai on there now. If youre not on a niche sub its unusable.
- The thing to keep in mind about reddit right now is that 50 of the users are bots, and a lot of the rest are bad actors doing astroturfing. They changed the way the site works to encourage these things.
- Just leave reddit. Its become a cluster of toxic echo chambers that are unevenly moderated at the best of times. At least half of the content is botted. Ads out of hand, astroturfing, no original content.
- Everything is hot garbage. Too many bots, too much astroturfing of discussions. I think were going to have to bring back message boards.
2. Mecanismos y Objetivos de la Manipulación.
El astroturfing no es un fenómeno nuevo, pero ha escalado, especialmente en contextos políticos (elecciones, conflictos internacionales) y corporativos. Se describe el proceso de creación de cuentas con karma inflado para luego venderlas y usarlas en campañas de propaganda coordinada.
- I can see it. I dislike the website since there are astroturfing subreddits where accounts with massive likes are farmed, then these accounts will be bought up, and post in political subreddits with obstinate and questionable intentions, and hide behind the inflated karma their accounts have.
- I used to moderate a fairly large subreddit and the average person has no idea how much astroturfing is happening behind the scenes.
- Conservative astroturfing has been a thing there for quite some time. They saw the natural inclination of redditors was against their interests so they did their best to start manipulating.
- Apparently palantir tried to run an astroturfing conservative psyop on reddit by creating alt subreddits for popular ones on topics issues significant to the current admin flooding them w propaganda credit to the users who noticed, but holy shit is that bad news.
- I have been donating plasma a while but correctly hate reddit, finally looked at the rplassing board and holy shit. Every other reply and thread is scripted propaganda by plasma corp employees. One if the weirdest and most surreal astroturfing projects ive ever seen.
3. Consecuencias en la Confianza y el Discurso.
La omnipresencia de la manipulación ha destruido la confianza en la información en línea. Los usuarios señalan que el contenido está diseñado para ser "ragebaiting" o emocionalmente manipulador, haciendo que el internet se vuelva inútil como fuente de información genuina.
- You cant trust anything positive on the internet because astroturfing and propaganda abound on it. You cant trust anything negative on the internet because rage-farming and clickbait make money there. Congratulations everyone, weve made it completely useless. We might as well just turn it.
- Careful what you consume on reddit right now. Almost half of the front page was disinformation today. Astroturfing goes both ways. If a post makes you emotional, it was intentional and only meant to get an immediate reaction until the next time that reaction is wanted.
- This is so cute yet makes me so sad bc it seems to be so much of people just sharing their daily lives the vibe is so happy, this feels like what social media could be if it wasnt constant astroturfing and hate.
- I fear the dumbness of this timeline has seeped into everyday life. No more need for top-down astroturfing of the dumbness.
- The mass astroturfing of charlie kirk has legitimately broken me in a new way. There are no consequences for lying anymore and we cant expect this trajectory to bring us all nothing but suffering and destruction.