Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.

  • Clairvoidance@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    means bozos are making even searching exclusively by reddit useless because they’re making the post get to the first page through writing SEO + ad for their own shit on it

    I am wrong on the internet

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      Not quite. They’re making posts on reddit that few if any humans will ever read, targeting rising threads and planting comments before AI reads them. Then when someone asks AI a related question, it regurgitates the planted comment rather than established facts.

      So it’s not SEO on humans searching reddit, more like SEO in the AI domain.