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What percentage of Reddit users are bots or foreign bad actors? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 week ago by slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It probably seems weird asking this on Lemmy, but of course posting this on Reddit would get banned or taken down. Reddit doesn’t like being critical of Reddit. Anyways….

Over the last 10 years as a Reddit user I’ve believe the amount of accounts that are bots or foreign bad actors has tipped past 50%. I have no statistics to speak of, but would love if somebody did and could share.

Based purely on some of the conversations, posts, rage bait, strong ideologies, etc… I’m pretty convinced that a reasonable sample of humans could not or would not act the way they do on that platform. So often now I see posts that I feel are specifically attempting to sow discord and disagreement.

Does anyone else agree? What percent of users do you think are bots? Foreign bad actors?

Sadly, I think Reddit has no desire to find out or do anything about it. There would be no upside to them correcting their advertising numbers.

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[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Define "foreign"

[–] slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In another comment I was accused of being a brainwashed American, so take this for what it is, but some posts — mostly of a political nature — just seem to defy any mainstream thinking across the spectrum. Looking at some user profiles when I come across these, it seems their post history is entire based around fueling arguments, with no agenda, other than breed discontent.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So do you mean foreign as in not born here or foreign as in unusual/out of place

[–] slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

State-sponsored

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

why do you think they are state-sponsored

[–] slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nice try... North Korea. j/k. IDK man, because I watched "The Undeclared War". Give it a look.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

sorry I'm really new to all this

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 days ago

It is a well know fact since at least 2015 that Russia was conducting these operations against US and EU.

It is now widely accepted that all governments do this to some degree.

These operations are the most effective because they have funding from their respecting governments.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

other than breed discontent

That is the agenda. Russia would love it if we had no positive or genuine communication with our fellow citizens, and if we were completely divided.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 5 days ago

So would the ruling class.... in fact ruling class gets a lot more benefit from divisive politics