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.

    • Noxy
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      4423 days ago

      yeah it’s called Lemmy and…

      Oh. I get it.

      • @[email protected]
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        1623 days ago

        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]
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          1923 days ago

          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]
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            323 days ago

            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
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              323 days 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]
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          423 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      223 days ago

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

      • atocci
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        223 days ago

        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?

        • @[email protected]
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          123 days 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.