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The founders admitted themselves to start traction on the site with a multitude of fake users.

All the "just asking questions" posts pushing certain narratives in every regional subrredit are also quite noticeable.

For me that is proof enough, but other people might have different standards.



that was like, 17 years ago? and imho not an unreasonable thing to get a social site off the ground that had no users. Seems pretty irrelevant to the problems of today.


It might not be unreasonable to allow more bots before ipo, then. It is not proof, but it is a precedent.

In any case, my main proof is the narrative pushing (which imo is obvious)




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