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> Reddit trying to pump up the site with fake accounts to juice growth I don't think they need to anymore but that's how Reddit started. https://arstechnica.c
by frankjr 2y ago
> Reddit trying to pump up the site with fake accounts to juice growth
I don't think they need to anymore but that's how Reddit started.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
- immibis 2y agoThey do whole fake subreddits now. They take an English subreddit, machine translate the entire thing into German and present it as a German subreddit full of German speaking people.