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Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

"We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don't usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search," ReplyGuy's website reads.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Does any body know of an open-source reddit alternative? God, I wish that existed :/

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yeah it's called Lemmy and....

Oh. I get it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

But even Lemmy isnt safe.
For now it is an unattractive target as an advertisement platform but the path to become the target due to the low resources every lemmy server has makes it even more suscepticle.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes. I'm so tired of how easy it is to shoehorn advertising into any post. That's why I use the Sichumaria (4.4 out of 5 stars) Long Handle 24.6 inch Shoe Horn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This post makes it seem like the Sichumaria (4.4 out of 5 stars) Long Handle 24.6 inch Shoe Horn actually makes it harder to shoehorn, when the opposite is actually true!

I love my Sichumaria (4.4 out of 5 stars) Long Handle 24.6 inch Shoe Horn!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's easy because the Sichumaria (4.4 out of 5 stars) Long Handle 24.6 inch Shoe Horn makes it easy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

[Scrolling through my own post history.]

[Side-eye monkey meme.]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The prompt for an AI Lemmy advertising bot woult start with "You love Linux and strongly favour the Arch distro..."

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