Sometimes I miss the 2016 version of myself, where I would get a mild dopamine boost about funny jokes about the orange man, or seeing a celebrity endorse my favorite DNC war criminal - blissfully unaware of global politics, war, and genocide.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    24 days ago

    Any time I poke my head into r*ddit, all I see is astroturfing. I don’t have an account and never have, nor do I look there regularly. Sometimes it’s the only place to find information about movies and whatnot because it’s easier to maintain a social media presence than an entire website. So I’ll go peek at the horror sub, for example, and there’s blatant astroturfing advertising shitty movies and shows. It’s not even a large sub.

    Some topics are more obvious, others have more artificial influences. But it’s bots and shills all the way down.