the classic imageboard post about neoliberal Harry Potter was cooking
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![Not so for the admins. Reddit, the company, is not concerned with authenticity, despite what any of their spokespeople would claim. As a corporate asset, reddit.com is tuned to bring in a profit. The site makes money from ads and awards, and both of those things require the userbase to provide all the links and comments and to generate discussion. But here's the catch: none of that profit scheme requires authenticity. It only requires activity and interaction.
In this system, repost bots are incredibly valuable! As long as there's no blowback over it, the awards and page views spurred by bot posting translate directly to money. Reddit needs to fight spam - the annoying kind that threatens to drive people away by turning the front page into a crypto and OnlyFans shill cesspool - but they don't need to fight artifice. They have every reason to love it. And I'd even go as far as to suggest that if they can look the other way for bots farming cute animal posts, they'll do it for propaganda and other manipulation too. Whatever makes profit go up is good, and whatever threatens it is bad. The Anti-Evil Operations team can't change that basic fact of corporate amorality.
What I've learned from looking into [account name] makes me more certain than ever that, without a serious change of heart at the admin level, reddit is a lost cause. Bots talking to bots, as far as the eye can see, generating convenient and hollow content engagement for the userbase and advertisers, forever.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:akyqcrrfagoeylmogyr3xmlw/bafkreig4g6iocee26trruharcgaiwuhfrni63zx34jiziquv2f7ycnzcoe)
