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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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[–] egeres@lemmy.world 90 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah it's called Lemmy and....

Oh. I get it.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 19 points 7 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.

[–] Cubes@lemm.ee 3 points 7 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!

[–] atocci@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

[Scrolling through my own post history.]

[Side-eye monkey meme.]

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Crow_Thief@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone know of an open source reddit alternative which is also comprehensible when trying to make a new account?

[–] atocci@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand, was making an account on Lemmy difficult? I have a Lemmy.world account as well and making an account was super easy. Maybe you'd like Kbin or Mbin better?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I don't know if matters have improved any, but back when I created my lemmy.world account specifically it had some kind of bugout about what I'd entered, but it output this to the developer console and not on the page itself. Had I not thought to press F12 I would not have discovered that it had its panties in a twist about whatever it was, I think characters in my email address or something. I forget exactly what its problem was.

So yeah, I can definitely seeing that baffling the average user.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago