Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls

> last year

I dunno, a bit before that my only account of 10+ years got sitewide shadowbanned without warning or explanation, with everything I ever wrote (and all replies to it) vanishing from public view. I used their appeal page, got a message saying it was an error and my appeal was approved... and then it stayed broken and and appeals won't work because it says the account is normal.

I resurrected an ancient career-advice-throwaway account to ask for help, and the same thing happened. And their generic support site is a total black-hole. I'm not ashamed to say the process was way more emotionally-devastating than I would have expected, as it was my primary social-media identity.

That certainly tore off some blinders about how close we are to being sharecroppers to our Kafkaesque system overlords.

Back in 2015/16, yes, it became obvious that Reddit corporate had sold out and was letting corporate spam bots run the show. Even going so far as to invent being able to 'post' to your own /u/profile instead of subreddits just for corporate spam accounts like /u/washingtonpost to be able to spam the front page without moderation.

I imagine it's only become worse since. Reddit was reddit from 2005-2016. Since then it's just been Facebook refugees and bots.

This is one of those threads where everyone is just gonna air their perceived gripes with Reddit with little relevance to the OP.

There may be biases from supermods, and that's an issue, but there's dozens of examples of diametrically opposed subreddits with thriving communities.

According to Steve Gibson (Security Now podcast among other things), "Attacks never get weaker, they only get stronger."

I remember being able to attract bots from a certain eastern mediterranian country and a certain south of Siberia country with just certain trigger words. They seem a lot more sophisticated now.

in the sr about economics over there the mention of a certain economist would instantly attract the 'bury brigade' to downvote the post. Haven't been there in years so I have no idea what it's like now.

Until we find our Neo, the only thing we can do is run when we attract the attention of an Agent.

I've observed it right here on hn.