My solution to this was not to look at the front page and heavy RES filtering for my own personal preferences. It worked well. But eventually the push to gentr

My solution to this was not to look at the front page and heavy RES filtering for my own personal preferences. It worked well. But eventually the push to gentrify reddit from the venture capitalists demanding profit on their millions made reddit corporate start banning even completely legit, but unprofitably controversial, subreddits. I left after they banned r/gundeals for having the temerity to exist and post links to and discuss firearms and firearm accessory deals online. All the bot stuff you're talking about came well after the gentrification and switch to user profile centered posting to absorb the Facebook refugees. It seems like the Facebook bots just followed the Facebook users to reddit.