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Yes. This is exactly what happened.

DIGG basically became what new Reddit looks like now, but they were specifically transparent that every post was essentially a paid marketing blob and the corporate commercial took over all of DIGG - pissed everyone off and they all flocked to Reddit.

Reddit is doing the same thing, however, when DIGG messed around with the UX, bots were not a thing in the same form they are now…

“Video killed the radio star” but now it’s

“Bot killed any sense of trust on social media”



As someone who only occasionally visits reddit, can I ask what the bots are doing? I’ve only ever seen bots that do things like correct spelling




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